Abstract
During the past decades, studies on prepositional polysemy have been carried out mainly under a cognitive linguistic paradigm, applying either a schema-based network approach or a corpus-based contextual approach to semantic analysis. Lin and Hwang (2021a) try to merge the traditional cognitive theories and use theories of meaning, conducting a corpus-driven and usage- based study on the lexical construction of “above-across” over. This paper now aims to further this mode of research by adding grammatical information (colligation) to the overall construction of over. The findings suggest that “above-across” over is typically primed to be associated with intransitive MOTION verbs and singular definite PART or BARRIER nouns in constructing a ‘traversing’ meaning. Combing multifaceted lexico-grammatical information, the study also proposes that “above-across” over is typically primed to represent the most common and noticeable human-nature experiences or meanings observed and constructed by language users.
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