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| Author | : Patrick Saint-Dizier |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2006-01-18 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9781402038495 |
Download Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is the first to provide an integrated view of preposition from morphology to reasoning, via syntax and semantics. It offers new insights in applied and formal linguistics, and cognitive science. It underlines the importance of prepositions in a number of computational linguistics applications, such as information retrieval and machine translation. The reader will benefit from a wide range of views and applications to various linguistic frameworks, among which, most notably, HPSG. The book is for researchers working in the fields of computational linguistics, linguistics, and artificial intelligence.
| Author | : Susanne Feigenbaum |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 318 |
| Release | : 2002-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9789027229564 |
Download Prepositions in Their Syntactic, Semantic, and Pragmatic Context Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The growing interest in prepositions is reflected by this impressive collection of papers from leading scholars of various fields. The selected contributions of Prepositions in their Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Context focus on the local and temporal semantics of prepositions in relation to their context, too. Following an introduction which puts this new approach into a thematical and historical perspective, the volume presents fifteen studies in the following areas: The semantics of space dynamics (mainly on French prepositions); Language acquisition (aphasia and code-switching); Artificial intelligence (mainly of English prepositions); Specific languages: Hebrew (from a number of perspectives syntax, semiotics, and sociolinguistic impact on morphology), Maltese, the Melanesian English-based Creole Bislama, and Biblical translations into Judeo-Greek.
| Author | : Tom Lundskær-Nielsen |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 214 |
| Release | : 1993-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 8774929224 |
Download Prepositions in Old and Middle English Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The present book covers various aspects of prepositional syntax between c. 900-1400, including case relations and the range of prepositional complements; it also examines word order, both within the PP and at clause level, and it explores changes in clausal word order. Furthermore, it provides a detailed semantic analysis of the three prepositions at, in and on in selected Old and Middle English texts, which shows to what extent the relative distribution of these prepositions changed during that period and how they gradually acquired new, extended senses.The front cover illustration renders the 895 entry of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Parker Ms., and has been reproduced with the permission of the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
| Author | : Martti Juhani Rudanko |
| Publisher | : SUNY Press |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 1996-01-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780791428733 |
Download Prepositions and Complement Clauses Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book provides a pioneering and data-oriented investigation of the syntax and semantics of important prepositional complementation patterns dependent on the prepositions in, to, at, on, with, and of in current English. The investigation is based on a sample of matrix verbs that governs the pattern of sentential complementation. The data includes the Brown and LOB corpora, English dictionaries and grammars, and the intuitions of native speakers. Rudanko sets up taxonomies of matrix verbs and argues that they often can be based on relatively few core classes. He questions whether verbs selecting a pattern also select other patterns of sentential complementation. Noting the quantity and quality of such alternation, he observes how differences in form are linked to differences in meaning. The study of relevant matrix verbs, supplemented with discussion of alternation and other syntactic and semantic properties of the patterns, points to the semantic functions that are associated typically with each pattern of complementation.
| Author | : Dennis Kurzon |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9789027229861 |
Download Adpositions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is a collection of articles which deal with adpositions in a variety of languages and from a number of perspectives. Not only does the book cover what is traditionally treated in studies from a European and Semitic orientation prepositions, but it presents studies on postpositions, too. The main languages dealt with in the collection are English, French and Hebrew, but there are articles devoted to other languages including Korean, Turkic languages, Armenian, Russian and Ukrainian. Adpositions are treated by some authors from a semantic perspective, by others as syntactic units, and a third group of authors distinguishes adpositions from the point of view of their pragmatic function. This work is of interest to students and researchers in theoretical and applied linguistics, as well as to those who have a special interest in any of the languages treated.
| Author | : Anna Asbury |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 426 |
| Release | : 2008-05-21 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027290741 |
Download Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The category P belongs to a less studied area in theoretical linguistics, which has only recently attracted considerable attention. This volume brings together pioneering work on adpositions in spatial relations from different theoretical and cross-linguistic perspectives. The common theme in these contributions is the complex semantic and syntactic structure of PPs. Analyses are presented in several different frameworks and approaches, including generative syntax, optimality theoretic semantics and syntax, formal semantics, mathematical modeling, lexical syntax, and pragmatics. Among the languages featured in detail are English, German, Hebrew, Igbo, Italian, Japanese, and Persian. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers of formal semantics, syntax and language typology, as well as scholars with a more general interest in spatial cognition.
| Author | : Mai Ellin Tungseth |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9789027255044 |
Download Verbal Prepositions and Argument Structure Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book investigates different types of verb-PP combinations and examines the types of meanings which arise when the argument structure of the PP fuses with the verbal argument structure. Focussing mainly on data from Norwegian, the book investigates three different empirical domains of PP-VP combinations and concludes that the arising interpretations result from a combination of the fine-grained structure of the PP, the structure of the verb phrase, and the different modes of combination. The book sheds new light on the syntax-semantics interplay while adding new insight about the properties of the category P in Norwegian. The book also contributes to the debate between Lexicalism and Constructionism, and it concludes that a moderate Constructionist model with a fine-grained syntactic structure determining interpretation is best equipped to handle the enormous flexibility of verb-prepositional phrase combinations of the types explored.
| Author | : Anna Asbury |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 428 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9789027255037 |
Download Syntax and Semantics of Spatial P Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The category P belongs to a less studied area in theoretical linguistics, which has only recently attracted considerable attention. This volume brings together pioneering work on adpositions in spatial relations from different theoretical and cross-linguistic perspectives. The common theme in these contributions is the complex semantic and syntactic structure of PPs. Analyses are presented in several different frameworks and approaches, including generative syntax, optimality theoretic semantics and syntax, formal semantics, mathematical modeling, lexical syntax, and pragmatics. Among the languages featured in detail are English, German, Hebrew, Igbo, Italian, Japanese, and Persian. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers of formal semantics, syntax and language typology, as well as scholars with a more general interest in spatial cognition.
| Author | : Michel Aurnague & Laure Vieu |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 544 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 9783110136340 |
Download The Semantics of Prepositions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The majority of the papers in this volume were presented at a workshop on the semantics of prepositions held at the Institut für Angewandte Informationsforschung in February 1990. The broader topic is the conceptualization of space. The papers bring together different approaches to the mental process of interpreting prepositions, in particular, the computational processing of prepositions as predications of different cognitive domains. While no one presentation can claim to be exhaustive, it is hoped that the insights contained will inspire future discussions within cognitive linguistics.
| Author | : Andrea Tyler |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2003-06-05 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1139436163 |
Download The Semantics of English Prepositions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Using a cognitive linguistics perspective, this book provides a comprehensive, theoretical analysis of the semantics of English prepositions. All English prepositions originally coded spatial relations between two physical entities; while retaining their original meaning, prepositions have also developed a rich set of non-spatial meanings. In this study, Tyler and Evans argue that all these meanings are systematically grounded in the nature of human spatio-physical experience. The original 'spatial scenes' provide the foundation for the extension of meaning from the spatial to the more abstract. This analysis articulates an alternative methodology that distinguishes between a conventional meaning and an interpretation produced for understanding the preposition in context, as well as establishing which of several competing senses should be taken as the primary sense. Together, the methodology and framework are sufficiently articulated to generate testable predictions and allow the analysis to be applied to additional prepositions.
