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For structuring of space relations in the Georgian language three dimensions are valuable: 1. Point of View (speaker’s or teller’s position); 2. Geographic Space (various directions and distance dichotomy); 3. Communicational Space (Ego and Alter Spaces). ‘Point of View’, ‘Ego space’ and ‘Distance dichotomy’ are flexible: They can be changed according to the speaker’s (or teller’s) attitude, while abstract relations of ‘Geographic Space’ are stable. Various combinations of the dimensions are represented in Georgian by the preverbs: There are 9 simple and 7 complex preverbs. The paper proposes a dynamic conceptual model of space structuring for Modern Standard Georgian and examines the possibilities of its linguistic representation.
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Asatiani, R. (2009). A Dynamic Conceptual Model for the Linguistic Structuring of Space: Georgian Preverbs. In: Bosch, P., Gabelaia, D., Lang, J. (eds) Logic, Language, and Computation. TbiLLC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5422. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00665-4_4
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