Study on the Ambiguity of "N+shang" and the Coding Difference of Spatial Structure between Chinese and English
"N+shang"expresses the semantic domain of static space.It can express such semantic content as on the surface of an object,over the object and in the object,and present point,line,plane and three-dimension spatial scale.By contrast,Chinese structure"N+shang"and English equivalent have similarities in semantics but differences in semantic form coding.Chinese uses more language symbols than English.The inherent reason of differences is significant cognitive orientation of the two languages on the aspects of cogni-tive order of reference substance and target object,dimensionof reference substance.