Overview

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.

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Author:   Patrick Saint-Dizier
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   2006 ed.
Volume:   29
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.470kg
ISBN:  

9781402038495

ISBN 10:   1402038496
Pages:   332
Publication Date:   18 January 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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.

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From the reviews: <p> The base of the book is a workshop on the syntax and semantics of prepositions, organized in Toulouse in 2003. The book is an argument of the statement that: prepositions are a useful category of language, closely related to semantics structures, are essential in many applications, are taken into account in machine translation and lexical choice in language generation. a ] The book is readable, valuable for novices in the field, and for students and researchers also. (E. Kostolanksky, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1095 (21), 2006)

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