Abstract This paper focuses on the most prominent theta roles used in the Sindhi language. The study attempts to answer to the research question, ‘How are theta roles prominently used in the Sindhi language?’ The data come from the young native Sindhi speakers. Each verb phrase in the data is examined with the help of Carnie’s (2007) ‘Theta Roles and Thematic Relations’ in order to find the pro...

Abstract This paper focuses on the most prominent theta roles used in the Sindhi language. The study attempts to answer to the research question, ‘How are theta roles prominently used in the Sindhi language?’ The data come from the young native Sindhi speakers. Each verb phrase in the data is examined with the help of Carnie’s (2007) ‘Theta Roles and Thematic Relations’ in order to find the pro...

This paper explores from a neuropsychological perspective the relation between the meanings of English locative prepositions (e.g., in, on, above, below) and the kinds of representations that are used for many visuospatial processes such as recognising, drawing, and constructing spatially complex objects. One possibility that has been proposed by some psycholinguists is that the meanings of pre...

An approach to the machine translation of locative prepositional phrases (PP) is presented. The technique has been implemented for use in an experimental transfer-based, multi-lingual machine translation system. Previous approaches to this problem are described and they are compared to the solution presented.

This paper proposes an LMT analysis for valence alternations in German of the form NP V NP [P NP ] NP V NP [P NP ], where the indices denote referential identity. These alternations involve direct internal arguments (i.e., objects) and indirect prepositional complements, and characterize among others the behaviour of verbal predicates which participate in the so-called Locative Alternation phen...

This paper presents an ontology of lexicalized spatial concepts designed for text processing. The ontology draws on existing linguistic resources and is experimentally shown to improve the automatic extraction of ACE spatial relations, PropBank locative arguments and FrameNet spatial frame elements. We will use the ontology for corpus annotation and automatic inference in the spatial semantic d...