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The Latin Preposition 'In' With Personal Object
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The semantics of the preposition na in Slavic spatial constructions
Prepositional usage in spatial constructions in the Slavic languages is frequently unpredictable and perplexing to the non-native speaker. This is especially true in the case of the preposition na. By examining categories of spatial phenomena with which the preposition na is used, it is possible to …
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Collocation and preposition sense: a phraseological approach to the cognition of polysemy
… the relationship between the ‘sense’ of the prepositions over, into and through and the combined ‘form’ of their preceding and following nouns, using the hypothesis that the co-occurring nouns can predict different senses of the prepositions. It uses concepts drawn from both corpus …
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The Obligatory Use of The Preposition a Plus Disjunctive Pronoun After Certain Verbs in French
There are at least thirty-five verbs in Modern French which do not accept the conjunctive (indirect object) pronoun marked {+human} under certain circumstances. These include so-called verbs of motion, e.g., je vais a lui, verbs like penser, e.g., je pense a lui, and verbal expressions like faire …
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Prepositions and prepositional verbs in classical Arabic
… first one is connected with the establishment of Preposition as a word class, and with that class of Prepositions whose association with the governing word is accounted for in a transformational generative grammar (TGG) either by a lexical redundancy rule or by a transformation, e. g. the …
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Diagnosing Reading strategies: Paraphrase Recognition
… it is important to understand the meaning of prepositions. Adding preposition disambiguation to the original system improved its accuracy by 20%. The preposition sense disambiguation module itself achieves about 80% accuracy for the top 10 most frequently used prepositions.</p> <p>The main …
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Spared syntax and impaired spell-out: the case of prepositions in Broca's and anomic aphasia
The present study deals with the impairment of prepositions, a somewhat neglected topic in aphasia research. It is the first to investigate the availability of all types of prepositions (i.e., spatial, temporal, other meaningful, subcategorized, syntactic prepositions, and particles) in a variety …
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Semantic representations for spatial expressions
… employing any of various parts of speech such as prepositions (on, in, …), nouns (front, rear,…), verbs (locate, stand, …), adjectives (close, distant, …), adverbs (back, next,…), or even pronouns (here, there). In English, expressions containing prepositional phrases representing spatial …
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The productive and receptive knowledge of collocations by advanced Arabic-speaking ESL/EFL learners
… verb-noun, adjective-noun, and verb-preposition. Data for this study were collected from 68 participants: 38 Saudi students at the Institute of Public Administration in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and 30 Arab students in the Intensive English program at Colorado State University. The …
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The Syntax of Non-Verbal Causation: The Causative Apomorphy of 'From' in Greek and Germanic Languages
… causation. Macroscopically, it examines the preposition 'from' as attested in contexts like "X is/comes from Y". Syntactic diagnostics are applied to formally distinguish the causative from the spatial interpretations of `from'-PPs in Greek, English, Dutch, and German. The syntactic landscape …
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Investigating Interlingual Errors to Enhance Intelligent Writing Assistants for Second Language Learners
… contrastive feedback for interlingual preposition errors in an AWA. In particular, I (1) present and compare ML- and neural language model-based approaches to preposition error detection, highlighting the capabilities of ML classifiers with linguistically-informed features, (2) develop …
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A study of agrammatism with special reference to Hebrew
… also claimed that in agrammatism governed prepositions are impaired and ungoverned prepositions are preserved. In order to test this part of the theory an indepth case study of a Hebrew speaking agrammatic patient who never used prepositions in her spontaneous speech was carried out. The …
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The motivations, constraints and decision-making of Beijing outbound tourists
… usually whether to travel or stay at home. The preposition is that motivation and constraints have certain impacts on participation. The next decision is related to where to travel. The preposition here is that the destination choice is influenced by motivation, constraints and socio-demographic …
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Some complexities in English article use and acquisition
<p>Along with preposition use, native-like article use is one of the greatest difficulties for learners of English, particularly for those learners whose first languages do not have articles. And unlike many other areas involved in the mastery of the language, articles continue to present a …
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HUU-FA THESIS DAT?: A Syntactic Analysis of Possessive Jamaican Creole Possessive WH-elements
… They are made of a WH-pronoun and a form of the preposition fi "for". Both terms differ in internal structure, and distribution. The difference between huu-fa and fi-huu will be dissected in terms of substrate and superstrate influences as well as the elements involved in their formation. …
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An Investigation of English Structure Rules in Adult Learners of English as a Second Language
… of English sentences containing eight selected preposition structure errors. The errors were selected from compositions written by Spanish speakers of varying English ability. The sentences were presented in three test formats: a paired-comparison task, an isolated rating task, and a …
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The Representation and Processing of Argument Structure Constructions
… control tower"" did not prime passives. Thus the preposition seems to be necessary for the priming of passive sentences to occur. These data are inconsistent with previous proposals stating that priming is the result of repeating abstract structure-building procedures. The results support a …
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Compounding in Namagowab and English: (exploring meaning creation in compounds)
… such as word type, compound class (Noun, Verb, Preposition, Adjective and Adverb) and constituent class could be counted, and described with formulae, and compound and constituent meaning analyzed. The conclusion was that socio historical factors such as language contact, and aspects of …
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