sense, depending on the verb and context), and the other of which, the goal (also “recipient” or “indirect object”), denotes the recipient or destination.1 In the double object construction (1), the goal NP immediately follows the verb, and is in turn immediately followed by the theme NP. The prepositional construction (2), by contrast, places the theme NP immediately after the verb, while the ...

The development of grammatical forms and synchronic effects has captured a considerable interest researchers across the globe. research this phenomenon is done to understand how certain linguistic arise interact with other forms. Literature also discloses that number studies addressed grammaticalisation prepositions, which somehow resulted in categorial conflict. However, there dearth literatur...

This paper introduces a compositional semantics of locative prepositional phrases which is based on a vector space ontology. Model-theoretic properties of prepositions like monotonicity and conservativity are defined in this system in a straightforward way. These notions are shown to describe central inferences with spatial expressions and to account for the grammaticality of preposition modifi...