Donde habita el olvido: las preposiciones “por” y “para” entre la memoria colectiva y la lingüística cognitiva
Where oblivion dwells: the prepositions “por” and “para” between collective memory and cognitive linguistics

Summary/Abstract: Learning the prepositions por and para presents a challenge both for students of Spanish as L2 in general, and, in a more particular case, for students whose L1 is English. It is this circumstance that motivates us to lay the foundations for a theoretical analysis based on cognitive linguistics, contrasted with the approach of traditional grammar, which exposes the value and function of these prepositions in a simple and meaning-cantered way. Hence, this article aims to expose the pedagogical potential of cognitive grammar, in a specific case (i.e. that of the prepositions por and para) with a multiparadigmatic approach to these linguistic units.

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