The book presents a comprehensive study of Russian prepositions, with a
focus on expressing spatial characteristics. It primarily deals with how
metaphorical and metonymical transfers motivate the use of Russian
prepositional phrases, explaining the collocations of prepositional
phrases with verbs as a realisation of a conceptual metaphor or a
metonymy. The author confronts a problem that is attracting growing
attention within present-day linguistics: the semantics of prepositions
and cases. The book seeks to clarify the conceptual motivations for the
use of the combinations of Russian primary prepositional phrases, as
well as to demonstrate how their spatial meanings are extended into
non-spatial domains. This book incorporates an analysis of a large
number of items, including 31 combinations of primary prepositions with
cases. An original contribution, the book is of interest to teachers and
students studying Slavic languages, and to cognitive linguists.