This document describes in detail an inventory of 50 semantic labels designed to characterize the use of adpositions and case markers at a somewhat coarse level of granularity. Version 2 is a revision of the supersense inventory proposed for English by Schneider et al. (2015, 2016) and documented in PrepWiki1 (henceforth “v1”), which in turn was based on previous schemes. The present inventory ...

The order of ‘noun and adposition’ is the important parameter of word ordering rules in the world’s languages. The seven parameters, ‘adverb and verb’ and others, have a strong dependence on the ‘noun and adposition’. Japanese as well as Korean, Tamil and several other languages seem to have a stable structure of word ordering rules, as well as Thai and other languages which have the opposite w...

In this paper, I discuss Finnish case alternation adpositions from a theoretical and corpus perspective. First, I argue that postpositional PP constructions with genitive case denote the standard spatial meaning of which an extension is marked with partitive case. Also, I show how word order interacts with case assignment. Both findings are formalized in a bidirectional Optimality Theoretic fra...

We present our work on semi-supervised parsing of natural language sentences, focusing on multi-source crosslingual transfer of delexicalized dependency parsers. We first evaluate the influence of treebank annotation styles on parsing performance, focusing on adposition attachment style. Then, we present KLcpos3 , an empirical language similarity measure, designed and tuned for source parser we...

This article addresses the distinction amongst adpositions between those which are lexical and functional. The uses a corpus linguistic approach to address outstanding questions: whether there two distinct subclasses of adposition, is continuum adpositions, how— by what properties— functional distinguished. argues for primarily semantic, multifaceted best understood as continuum. argued be quit...

This paper advances a general account of word order in resultatives. My conclusions derive from consideration of several languages, both VO and OV. Featured from the first group are English, Igbo, Edo, Ambae, Paamese, Mandarin, Shanghainese, Thai, and Vietnamese; included in the second are German, Ijọ, Japanese, Malayalam, Kannada, Mizo, and Yi. Resultatives are single clause constructions comp...