The objective of this work is to automatically determine, in an unsupervised manner, Spanish prepositional phrases of the type preposition nominal phrase preposition (P−NP−P) that behave in a sentence as a lexical unit and their semantic and syntactic properties cannot be deduced from the corresponding properties of each simple form, e.g., por medio de (by means of), a fin de (in order to), con...

This paper investigates the impact of modality markers on the conditional interpretation of the German preposition ohne (‘without’). It tackles the question whether it is the preposition itself that possesses a conditional sense or whether it may be due to a modal context that the interpretation arises. The paper presents an annotation study for modality factors (e.g. mood, modal auxiliary verb...

we will argue that the common practice in the literature of giving a long list of senses for spatial prepositions, implying that they are unrelated to one another is not adequate. the more adequate way is presenting a network of related senses based on a prototype. also, speaking specifically about persian preposition /d?r/, we will argue that the meanings of spatial prepositions arise as a con...

this study investigated the effect of applying the dynamic system theory (dst) and cognitive linguistics (cl) insights into grammar instruction on efl learners’ learning of english prepositions and learner autonomy. sixty iranian efl learners at the lower-intermediate level of language proficiency were randomly assigned to 1 experimental and 1 control group. the 2 groups filled out an autonomy ...