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Title

Syntax and semantics of prepositions / edited by Patrick Saint-Dizier.

Publication

Dordrecht : Springer, c2006.

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Additional Authors

Saint-Dizier, Patrick, 1954-

Description

xiv, 332 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Text, speech and language technology ; v. 29

Uniform Title

Text, speech, and language technology ; v. 29.

Subject

• Grammar, Comparative and general > Prepositions
• Linguistics
• Präposition
• Prépositions
• Semantics
• Semantik
• Syntax
• Syntax

Note

• "This book emerges from a workshop on the syntax and semantics of prepositions, organized in Toulouse in September 2003"--P. xii.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9781402038495 (hbk.)
• 9781402038730
• 9781402038990 (pbk.)
• 1402038496 (hbk.)
• 1402038739 (e-book)
• 1402038992 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2006455090

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library