| This article takes the cognition linguistics in spatial category and the time category as a starting point, in view of certain phenomena of using spatial words to express time in modern Chinese; try to seek the function of the modern Chinese spatial words in the time expression structure and the influence mechanism. The time expression mostly is draws support from spatial expression form in known languages, the universal phenomenon in languages shows an important cognition universal phenomenon: time is the metaphor of space. The spatial words in modern Chinese projects from the spatial category to the time category produced some special phenomena, such as asymmetrical, imbalanced and coupling and so on. Regarding these phenomena, this article attempts to propose some explanations from spatial and the time cognition of Han nationality, and performs the evidence from the locative history inspection. After entering the time expression category, modern Chinese spatial words has their unique functions in the grammar and meanings. The spatial words enter the time expression category, has also had the influence regarding the modern Chinese grammar system, the main performance that was has caused the spatial words interior differentiation, the shift of meanings of spatial words, as well as spatial words own grammatical function expansion.
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