SPATIAL PERCEPTION AS THE BASIS FOR THE FORMATION OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF RELATIONS IN LANGUAGE EXPRESSED BY PREPOSITIONS (BASED ON SPANISH)

Abstract

The article studies spatial relations in language realized with the help of prepositions. Spatial perception is considered to be fundamental in human perception of the surrounding reality, so the spatial semantics of prepositions in analytical languages is original and contains information about different locations of objects in all possible points of the space, which is perceived by the speaker. The article presents arguments in favour of the idea that the spatial perception of the surrounding reality serves as a prerequisite for the formation of other types of relations in language. By analyzing the provisions of the article, the author concludes that the speaker’s perception of space can form the basis for the spatial relations in language to be accompanied by other types of relations, expressed by prepositions.