COULEURS » DE LA PRÉPOSITION SOUS : ENTRE SENS SPATIAL ET SENS SPATIALISÉS

That prepositions are not specialized to indicate a single semantic value is a fact already well-known. Their polysemy and semantic load have been highlighted in numerous studies by linguists, semanticists and logicians. The focus will be on the preposition sous, which is not always opposable to sur, often described as topological, precisely to demonstrate its "mixedness", its possibility to function either as a projective preposition or as close to the topological items. Next, I try to show that its use in circumstantial adverbials of time, cause, instrument or manner always retains its basic characteristics, described as dependence or pressure exerted by the landmark on the trajector.