Cognitive linguistics regards the meaning of language as humans' subjective interpretation of the world. As men communicate with the world through their bodies, their views are self-centered. Those views are reflected in languages. Therefore, it is possible to reveal the unique way of thinking reflected in a language by analyzing the semantic system related to words. This research examines some spatial semantic characteristics of the spatial term “дээр” in the Mongolian language. For this, the study determines its fundamental meanings and schemas related to them based on the basic concepts of spatial semantics of Zlatev (2007) among the cognitive semantics. According to the frame of reference, the word “дээр” spatially indicates a level of height between two things and certain location on a thing. Due to these schematic characteristics, this word does not indicate active or directional motions but static situations.
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