New Paradigm on the Investigation of the Prepositions

Abstract

Meaning is one of the most controversial terms in linguistic theory. It is noteworthy to mention that the understanding of this term does not cause any difficulties as it is freely used in teaching, oral and written translation. However, the scientific definition of meaning has become the subject of endless debate, along with the definitions of some other basic linguistic notions such as word, sentence, phrase, etc. Since there is no generally accepted definition of meaning, we have to limit ourselves to a small study of the problem as it is considered in modern linguistics [Barkhudarov, 1975, p. 50-70]. As for the meaning of the word, there have been attempts to define it by linguists in all periods when linguistics existed as a science. The work on the scientific understanding of the meaning of the word is carried out with the aim of a detailed description of the semantics of the words. In the theory of linguistics, there are different definitions of the meaning of a word, which is due to the existence of different approaches to understanding the meaning. Although there are various theories about the meaning of words, most of them are not suitable to describe the meaning of prepositions.