Article

Name: Spatial metaphors in «Paraenesis» of Ephraem Syrus

Authors: Gorbunova Victoria Aleksandrovna

Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section Linguistics

Abstract: The paper discusses the metaphorical uses of syntactic constructions with typical spatial semantics in the text of collected didactic words «Paraenesis» by Ephraem Syrus (the copy dated to the 14th century). The author of the paper determines the range of meanings conveyed with the help of semantic transformation and describes the syntactical structures and types of spatial relations most commonly and universally used as a basis for metaphors in the text.

Keywords: metaphor, modeling of a simple sentence, typical syntactical structure, topological relations, old east slavic

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