Das Verb ›legen‹: Eine Untersuchung seiner räumlich-konkreten Bedeutungsvarianten

Against the background of prototype theory the volume examines the meaning varieties of the German verb legen in present-day usage. On the basis of extensive material taken from written German, the individual variants of legen referring to a process going on in concrete space are identified and subjected to detailed analysis with reference to numerous example sentences. The systematic relations between the various usages are presented in the form of a semantic network displaying the interconnections between the meanings of the variants and the core meaning of the verb.