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The study examines the semantics of spatial expressions, notably spatial prepositions and distance adjectives, and the way they combine. The perspective takes its bearings from cognitive science but within that framework is interdisciplinary in its approach. Evidence is adduced to demonstrate that a sufficiently accurate analysis of spatial-semantic phenomena can only be assured by taking due account of attention processes as the cognitive basis of explicit conceptual spatial relations.