Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions

✍ Scribed by Patrick Saint-Dizier (auth.), Patrick Saint-Dizier (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 340
• Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology 29
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter....Pages 1-14
Introduction to the Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions....Pages 1-25
Preposition Contractions in Quebec French....Pages 27-42
The A’s and BE’s of English Prepositions....Pages 43-56
Typological Tendencies and Universal Grammar in the Acquisition of Adpositions....Pages 57-68
Multilingual inventory interpretations for postpositions and prepositions....Pages 69-82
German prepositions and their kin....Pages 83-99
Directionality Selection....Pages 101-114
Verb-Particle Constructions in the World Wide Web....Pages 115-130
Prepositional Arguments in a Multilingual Context....Pages 131-145
The syntax of French � and de: an HPSG analysis....Pages 147-162
In Search of a Systematic Treatment of Determinerless PPs....Pages 163-179
Combinatorial Aspects of Collocational Prepositional Phrases....Pages 181-196
Distributional Similarity and Preposition Semantics....Pages 197-210
A Computational Model of the Referential Semantics of Projective Prepositions....Pages 211-228
Ontology-Based Semantics for Prepositions....Pages 229-244
Analysis and Interpretation of the Japanese Postposition no....Pages 245-261
What do the notions of instrumentality and of manner have in common?....Pages 263-287
A Conceptual Semantics for Prepositions denoting Instrumentality....Pages 289-305
Prepositions in Cooperative Question-Answering Systems: a Preliminary Analysis....Pages 307-330
Back Matter....Pages 331-332