The paper presents a corpus-based research on clitic-host relations within the prepositional group in Russian. As a phonetic criterion for determining the relation between clitics and their hosts, we suggest using the degree of vowel reduction— the phenomenon functioning within the prosodic word. A comparison of vowel reduction patterns for clitic group vs prosodic word with no adjacent clitics...

The learning of spatial prepositions is assumed to be based on experience in space. In a slow mapping study, we investigated whether 31 German 28-month-old children could robustly learn the German spatial prepositions hinter [behind] and neben [next to] from pictures, and whether a narrative input can compensate for a lack of immediate experience in space. One group of children received picture...

The present study focuses on the lexical meanings of prepositions rather than on the thematic meanings because it is intended for use in an English-Bengali machine translation (MT) system, where the meaning of a lexical unit must be preserved in the target language, even though it may take a different syntactic form in the source and target languages. Bengali is the fifth language in the world ...

This paper presents ideas for formally representing and working with prepositions as stand-alone constructs in connection with nouns and verbs, as prefixes, and as connecting constituents in compounds. As main starting points serve (a) Davis’ proto(typical) roles for linking subject and complements of verbs with semantic roles in HPSG, (b) Pustejovsky’s generative lexicon theory, and (c) Cyc’s ...

The study proceeds from the results of the previous studies showing that the distributional characteristics (frequency) of language input are crucial for the acquisition of prepositions (Savić & Anđelković, 2005, in preparation). The authors analyze deviations in the distribution of prepositions in children's spontaneous speech from the prediction made on the basis of the distributional charact...

The article is devoted to the functions of local and temporal prepositions in German. Space time are fundamental concepts that exist human mind, which explains importance studying them. Understanding describing spatial relations different languages particular interest both cognitive linguistic terms. study convey makes it possible identify patterns perception world, refracted meanings these lan...

Prepositions in general are used to represent, disclose and express ideas as they closely related clarifying the significance of context all its forms. The study their meanings is great importance grammarians commentators. Therefore, interpretation meaning these prepositions need from researcher go deeper reveal how be give desired meaning، then elicit required result intended purpose well. The...

In this paper I investigate a previously neglected aspect of the phonology of Russian vowel-∅ alternations involving verbal prefixes and prepositions. There is evidence both for and against the notion that prepositions and verbal prefixes — which I will call P, for short — have identical phonological behavior. There are at least two processes that suggest that P forms a unified phonological cat...