The Mayan languages Tzeltal and Yucatec have large form classes of ‘dispositional’ roots which lexicalize spatial properties such as orientation, support/suspension/blockage of motion, and configurations of parts of an entity with respect to other parts. But speakers of the two languages deploy this common lexical resource quite differently. The roots are used in both languages to convey dispos...

Lexical-semantic investigations in cognitive neuroscience have focused on conceptual knowledge of concrete objects. By contrast, relational concepts have been largely ignored. We examined thematic role and locative knowledge in 14 left-hemisphere-damage patients. Relational concepts shift cognitive focus away from the object to the relationship between objects, calling into question the relevan...

In this paper, we put forward a semantic analysis of constructions prepositional phrases introduced by the preposition para with locative meaning combined verbs ser, estar and ficar. proposal, characterise these regarding properties individual-level/ stage-level, modal reading, vagueness location, as well restrictions imposed on subject related to some lexical features, in particular [movable] ...

Locative constructions, as an instance of double object constructions with various cognitive-linguistic concepts, have been successful in attracting the linguists. This paper tried to evaluate the acquisition of English locative constructions by Persian native speakers in the absence of negative evidence, focusing on the influence of L1 and participants’ proficiency level in the course of acqui...

This research is a qualitative descriptive study that discusses the semantic relation of serial verbs construction in Kedang language. There are two sources data, namely; primary data obtained through interviews and secondary language documentation. The were analyzed using agih padan method which was initiated by Sudaryanto, then adjusted to Dixon's typology theory regarding pattern verb format...

A network was trained by back propagation to map locative expressions of the form "noun-preposition-noun" to a semantic representation, as in Cosic and Munro (1988). The network's performance was analyzed over several simulations with training sets in both English and German. Translation of prepositions was attempted by presenting a locative expression to a network trained in one language to ge...

This paper presents the concepts and techniques used in a family of location based multimedia works. The paper has three main sections: 1.) to describe the architecture of an audio-visual hardware/software framework we have developed for the realization of a series of locative media artworks, 2.) to discuss the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings motivating the design of the technical fram...