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Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions

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Editors:
  1. Patrick Saint-Dizier

    1. CNRS, Toulouse, France

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  • 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

Part of the book series: Text, Speech and Language Technology (TLTB, volume 29)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-14
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  2. Introduction to the Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions

    • Patrick Saint-Dizier
    Pages 1-25

  3. Preposition Contractions in Quebec French

    • Luc V. Baronian
    Pages 27-42

  4. The A’s and BE’s of English Prepositions

    • Andrew McMichael
    Pages 43-56

  5. Typological Tendencies and Universal Grammar in the Acquisition of Adpositions

    • David Stringer
    Pages 57-68

  6. Multilingual inventory interpretations for postpositions and prepositions

    • Mikel Lersundi, Eneko Agirre
    Pages 69-82

  7. German prepositions and their kin

    • Martin Volk
    Pages 83-99

  8. Directionality Selection

    • Marcus Kracht
    Pages 101-114

  9. Verb-Particle Constructions in the World Wide Web

    • Aline Villavicencio
    Pages 115-130

  10. Prepositional Arguments in a Multilingual Context

    • Valia Kordoni
    Pages 131-145

  11. The syntax of French à and de: an HPSG analysis

    • Anne Abeillé, Olivier Bonami, Danièle Godard, Jesse Tseng
    Pages 147-162

  12. In Search of a Systematic Treatment of Determinerless PPs

    • Timothy Baldwin, John Beavers, Leonoor van der Beek, Francis Bond, Dan Flickinger, Ivan A. Sag
    Pages 163-179

  13. Combinatorial Aspects of Collocational Prepositional Phrases

    • Beata TrawiÅ„ski, Manfred Sailer, Jan-Philipp Soehn
    Pages 181-196

  14. Distributional Similarity and Preposition Semantics

    • Timothy Baldwin
    Pages 197-210

  15. A Computational Model of the Referential Semantics of Projective Prepositions

    • John Kelleher, Josef van Genabith
    Pages 211-228

  16. Ontology-Based Semantics for Prepositions

    • Per Anker Jensen, Jörgen Fischer Nilsson
    Pages 229-244

  17. Analysis and Interpretation of the Japanese Postposition no

    • Ryusuke Kikuchi, Hidetosi Sirai
    Pages 245-261

  18. What do the notions of instrumentality and of manner have in common?

    • Alda Mari
    Pages 263-287

  19. A Conceptual Semantics for Prepositions denoting Instrumentality

    • Alda Mari, Patrick Saint-Dizier
    Pages 289-305

  20. Prepositions in Cooperative Question-Answering Systems: a Preliminary Analysis

    • Farah Benamara, Véronique Moriceau
    Pages 307-330
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • CNRS, Toulouse, France

    Patrick Saint-Dizier

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions

  • Editors: Patrick Saint-Dizier

  • Series Title: Text, Speech and Language Technology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3873-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3849-5Published: 18 January 2006

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3899-0Published: 05 January 2007

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3873-0Published: 02 March 2006

  • Series ISSN: 1386-291X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-9388

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 332

  • Topics: Grammar, Linguistics, general

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