Maria Brenda

Maria Brenda, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Szczecin University, Poland. Her major fields of professional interest include the cognitive approach to language; space in language expressed by spatial prepositions; polysemy; prototype theory; category structure; concept formation; and the embodied nature of meaning and meaning construction. Her publications include "Completion, Transfer and Temporal senses of the spatial prepositions over and nad - a contrastive...See more

Maria Brenda, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Szczecin University, Poland. Her major fields of professional interest include the cognitive approach to language; space in language expressed by spatial prepositions; polysemy; prototype theory; category structure; concept formation; and the embodied nature of meaning and meaning construction. Her publications include "Completion, Transfer and Temporal senses of the spatial prepositions over and nad - a contrastive English-Polish study"; "The syntax of the preposition over"; and "Measurement in the More Sense and the Over-and-Above (Excess II) Sense of the preposition over and of the Polish preposition nad". See less