On the methodology for constructing a semantic network of English prepositions : a case study of the preposition for

摘要

The purpose of this paper is to propose a new methodology for constructing semantic networks of English prepositions, a network reasonably regarded as psychologically real. As a case study, we will specifically dis-cuss the preposition for. Another aim of this paper is to apply our semantic networks to a pedagogical purpose of helping Japanese English learners to learn the semantics of English prepositions more effectively.