The Semantics Of English Prepositions

Author : Andrea Tyler,Vyvyan Evans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139436168

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The Semantics of English Prepositions by Andrea Tyler,Vyvyan Evans Pdf

Using a cognitive linguistics perspective, this book provides a comprehensive, theoretical analysis of the semantics of English prepositions. All English prepositions originally coded spatial relations between two physical entities; while retaining their original meaning, prepositions have also developed a rich set of non-spatial meanings. In this study, Tyler and Evans argue that all these meanings are systematically grounded in the nature of human spatio-physical experience. The original 'spatial scenes' provide the foundation for the extension of meaning from the spatial to the more abstract. This analysis articulates an alternative methodology that distinguishes between a conventional meaning and an interpretation produced for understanding the preposition in context, as well as establishing which of several competing senses should be taken as the primary sense. Together, the methodology and framework are sufficiently articulated to generate testable predictions and allow the analysis to be applied to additional prepositions.

Author : Patrick Saint-Dizier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1402038496

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Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions by Patrick Saint-Dizier Pdf

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.

Author : Patrick Saint-Dizier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781402038730

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Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions by Patrick Saint-Dizier Pdf

This is the first book 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 book presents a wide range of views and applications to various linguistic frameworks.

Author : Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110872576

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The Semantics of Prepositions by Cornelia Zelinsky-Wibbelt Pdf

Author : Susanne Feigenbaum,Dennis Kurzon
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027229562

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Prepositions in Their Syntactic, Semantic, and Pragmatic Context by Susanne Feigenbaum,Dennis Kurzon Pdf

The growing interest in prepositions is reflected by this impressive collection of papers from leading scholars of various fields. The selected contributions of Prepositions in their Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Context focus on the local and temporal semantics of prepositions in relation to their context, too. Following an introduction which puts this new approach into a thematical and historical perspective, the volume presents fifteen studies in the following areas: The semantics of space dynamics (mainly on French prepositions); Language acquisition (aphasia and code-switching); Artificial intelligence (mainly of English prepositions); Specific languages: Hebrew (from a number of perspectives — syntax, semiotics, and sociolinguistic impact on morphology), Maltese, the Melanesian English-based Creole Bislama, and Biblical translations into Judeo-Greek.

Author : David C. Bennett
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015012185883

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Spatial and Temporal Uses of English Prepositions by David C. Bennett Pdf

Author : Tom Lundskær-Nielsen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788774929222

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Prepositions in Old and Middle English by Tom Lundskær-Nielsen Pdf

The present book covers various aspects of prepositional syntax between c. 900-1400, including case relations and the range of prepositional complements; it also examines word order, both within the PP and at clause level, and it explores changes in clausal word order. Furthermore, it provides a detailed semantic analysis of the three prepositions at, in and on in selected Old and Middle English texts, which shows to what extent the relative distribution of these prepositions changed during that period and how they gradually acquired new, extended senses.The front cover illustration renders the 895 entry of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Parker Ms., and has been reproduced with the permission of the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Author : Seth Lindstromberg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027287892

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English Prepositions Explained by Seth Lindstromberg Pdf

This completely revised and expanded edition of English Prepositions Explained (EPE), originally published in 1998, covers approximately 100 simple, compound, and phrasal English prepositions of space and time – with the focus being on short prepositions such as at, by, in, and on. Its target readership includes teachers of ESOL, pre-service translators and interpreters, undergraduates in English linguistics programs, studious advanced learners and users of English, and anyone who is inquisitive about the English language. The overall aim is to explain how and why meaning changes when one preposition is swapped for another in the same context. While retaining most of the structure of the original, this edition says more about more prepositions. It includes many more figures – virtually all new. The exposition draws on recent research, and is substantially founded on evidence from digitalized corpora, including frequency data. EPE gives information and insights that will not be found in dictionaries and grammar handbooks.

Author : Alan J. Cienki
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034350434

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Spatial Cognition and the Semantics of Prepositions in English, Polish, and Russian by Alan J. Cienki Pdf

The object of this work will be a selected group of prepositions in English, Polish and Russian which can express spatial relationships? This study focuses on "everyday" usage of the languages in question.

Author : Martti Juhani Rudanko
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0791428737

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Prepositions and Complement Clauses by Martti Juhani Rudanko Pdf

This book provides a pioneering and data-oriented investigation of the syntax and semantics of important prepositional complementation patterns dependent on the prepositions in, to, at, on, with, and of in current English. The investigation is based on a sample of matrix verbs that governs the pattern of sentential complementation. The data includes the Brown and LOB corpora, English dictionaries and grammars, and the intuitions of native speakers. Rudanko sets up taxonomies of matrix verbs and argues that they often can be based on relatively few core classes. He questions whether verbs selecting a pattern also select other patterns of sentential complementation. Noting the quantity and quality of such alternation, he observes how differences in form are linked to differences in meaning. The study of relevant matrix verbs, supplemented with discussion of alternation and other syntactic and semantic properties of the patterns, points to the semantic functions that are associated typically with each pattern of complementation.

Author : Frank Boers
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Cognition
ISBN : 382334935X

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Spatial Prepositions and Metaphor by Frank Boers Pdf

Author : Claude Vandeloise
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1991-10-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0226847276

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Spatial Prepositions by Claude Vandeloise Pdf

This striking study of the meaning and use of the major spatial prepositions in French provides valuable insight into how the human mind organizes spatial relationships. Most previous analyses of spatial prepositions have assumed that their semantic properties can be adequately explained by familiar logical and geometrical concepts. Thus, the standard view of the preposition "in" as it appears in the sentence "the ball is in the bag" postulates that it refers to the geometrical relation of inclusion. This paradigm, however, falters when faced with the contrast in acceptability between sentences such as "the bulb is in the socket" and "the bottle is in the cap." The force exerted by the "landmark" (a conceptually fixed object) on the "target" (a moveable object) is crucial in this difference: the functional notion of containment seems more operational in the use of the preposition "in" than inclusion. That is, what are taken to be the landmark and the target depend greatly on the functions these objects serve in the human scheme. This offers important clues to otherwise problematic linguistic quirks, such as why one sleeps in one's bed, while one is said to lie on one's deathbed. While many of the examples apply in English as well as French, there are some noteworthy differences—in French one sits on a chair, but in a couch. Vandeloise convincingly argues that it is precisely this subjective element which makes a standard geometrical account unfeasible.

Author : R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192639295

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English Prepositions by R. M. W. Dixon Pdf

This book provides an integrated account of the main prepositions of English, outlining their various forms and illustrating contrastive senses. The three chapters in Part I delineate grammatical contexts of occurrence and special uses, exploring grammatical roles, phrasal verbs, and prepositional verbs respectively. In Part II, each chapter deals with a set of related prepositions, providing an integrated account of the meanings for each, and explaining how these are linked to their grammatical properties. There are two chapters on relational prepositions - principally of, for, by, and with - which have only minor reference to space or time. These are followed by seven chapters on prepositions whose basic meaning is spatial, with many extensions to abstract senses, and one that ties together the varied ways through which prepositions deal with time. The final chapter outlines how some people have attempted to prescribe how language should be used; it also covers dialect variation, foreign learners' errors, and prospects for the future. The book is written in Dixon's accustomed style - clear and well-organized, with easy-to-understand explanations, and with limited use of technical terms. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of the English language, including instructors of English as a second language.

Author : Ewa Ciszek-Kiliszewska
Publisher : Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : English language
ISBN : 3631724810

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Middle English Prepositions and Adverbs with the Prefix Be- in Prose Texts by Ewa Ciszek-Kiliszewska Pdf

The book is a study of Middle English prepositions and adverbs with the prefix «be-» in prose texts. «Before, beyond, behind, beneath, between» and «betwixt» are analysed for the semantics, textual and dialectal distribution and frequency, synchronic and diachronic. The study draws on full texts from the «Innsbruck Corpus of Middle English Prose».

Author : Dennis Kurzon,Silvia Adler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027229864

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Adpositions by Dennis Kurzon,Silvia Adler Pdf

This book is a collection of articles which deal with adpositions in a variety of languages and from a number of perspectives. Not only does the book cover what is traditionally treated in studies from a European and Semitic orientation – prepositions, but it presents studies on postpositions, too. The main languages dealt with in the collection are English, French and Hebrew, but there are articles devoted to other languages including Korean, Turkic languages, Armenian, Russian and Ukrainian. Adpositions are treated by some authors from a semantic perspective, by others as syntactic units, and a third group of authors distinguishes adpositions from the point of view of their pragmatic function. This work is of interest to students and researchers in theoretical and applied linguistics, as well as to those who have a special interest in any of the languages treated.