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Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions


Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions


Text, Speech and Language Technology, Band 29

von: Patrick Saint-Dizier

149,79 €

Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 02.03.2006
ISBN/EAN: 9781402038730
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 332

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A great deal of attention has been devoted in the past ten years in the lingu- tic and computational linguistics communities to the syntax and the semantics of nouns, verbs and also, but to a lesser extent, to adjectives. Related p- nomena such as quanti?cation or tense and aspect have motivated a number of in-depth studies and projects. In contrast, prepositions have received less attention. The reasons are quite clear: prepositions are highly polysemic, p- sibly more so than adjectives, and linguistic realizations are extremely dif?cult to predict, not to mention the dif?culty of identifying cross-linguistic regula- ties. Furthermore, a number of languages do not use prepositions or postpo- tions (or make a limited use of them) and prefer other linguistic forms such as morphological marks, e. g. case marks. Let us mention, however, projects devoted to prepositions expressing space, time and movement in arti?cial intelligence and in natural language processing, and also the development of formalisms and heuristics to handle prepositional phrase attachment ambiguities. Prepositions are also present in subcategorization frames of predicative lexical items, but often in an informal and coarse-grained way. Let us also mention the large number of studies in psycholinguistics and in ethnolinguistics around speci?c preposition senses. Finally, prepositions seem to reach a very deep level in the cognitive-semantic structure of the brain: cognitive grammar developers often use prepositions in their metalanguage, in order to express very primitive notions.
to the Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions.- Preposition Contractions in Quebec French.- The A’s and BE’s of English Prepositions.- Typological Tendencies and Universal Grammar in the Acquisition of Adpositions.- Multilingual inventory interpretations for postpositions and prepositions.- German prepositions and their kin.- Directionality Selection.- Verb-Particle Constructions in the World Wide Web.- Prepositional Arguments in a Multilingual Context.- The syntax of French à and de: an HPSG analysis.- In Search of a Systematic Treatment of Determinerless PPs.- Combinatorial Aspects of Collocational Prepositional Phrases.- Distributional Similarity and Preposition Semantics.- A Computational Model of the Referential Semantics of Projective Prepositions.- Ontology-Based Semantics for Prepositions.- Analysis and Interpretation of the Japanese Postposition no.- What do the notions of instrumentality and of manner have in common?.- A Conceptual Semantics for Prepositions denoting Instrumentality.- Prepositions in Cooperative Question-Answering Systems: a Preliminary Analysis.
<P>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.</P>
The first to provide an integrated view of preposition from morphology to reasoning, via syntax and semantics Provides new insights in applied and formal linguistics, and in cognitive science Underlines the importance of prepositions in a number of computational linguistics applications such as information retrieval or machine translation The reader will benefit from a wide range of views and applications to various linguistic frameworks, among which, most notably, HPSG

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