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Computational Interpretation of English Spatial Prepositions
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Prepositions and prepositional verbs in classical Arabic
… 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 prepositions associating with the active and the passive …
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The Syntactical Effects of Compounding Verbs With Prepositions
A thesis submitted to the Department of Latin of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts.
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The Semantics of Russian 'About' Prepositions: A Corpus-Based Study
… the semantic content of several important prepositions in modern Russian which translate ‘about, concerning’. It focuses primarily on the two primary prepositions o+LOC and pro, and includes the two secondary prepositions nas¿¿et and po povodu, which also translate ‘about, concerning’. …
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Input Processing and the Teaching of German Two-way Prepositions
… to or inhibits the learning of German two-way prepositions. Sixty-four participants from ten intact second-semester German classes in three separate semesters at a large, public, mid-western University were assigned to two treatment groups: one where redundant lexical cues were not removed from …
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A Study of the Prepositions in Livy Book Thirty-Eight
… of this study is to investigate the use of the prepositions in Book Thirty-eight of Livy, and to compare wherever possible his usages with those of the Classical writers. While emphasis is placed on Livy’s divergence from the classical standards, his adherence to classical usage is also …
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A construction grammar approach to spatial prepositions in modern standard Arabic
… approach to examining the meaning of spatialprepositions in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), critically examines traditional accounts ofthe semantic character and syntactic role of MSA prepositions and posits an alternativeapproach based on construction grammar theory and findings from …
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Using Relational Frame Theory to Teach Prepositions to Children with Autism
… with the use of pragmatic language, including prepositions. Training methods such as direct instruction have been successfully used to train prepositions, but often do not demonstrate generalization of the skill, nor use of the skill when applied to arbitrary stimuli. The present study …
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Exploring the prepositions: an approach to the design of public-private edges.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1974. M.Arch.
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Local norms and innovations within the system of locative prepositions in Cajun French
… study, we analyze the use of locative prepositions. We add two important dimensions to existing studies: real-time evidence for a diachronic descriptive perspective, and a methodological tool, measuring the degree of exposure to French (MDI). This approach allows us to establish the …
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An Investigation into Automatic Translation of Prepositions in IT Technical Documentation from English to Chinese
… errors. This study focuses on translation of prepositions from English into Chinese within technical documents in an industrial localisation context. The aim of the study is to reveal the salient errors in the translation of prepositions and to explore possible methods to remedy these errors. …
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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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The Semantic Systems of The Prepositions of Separation in Gothic, Old High German, and Old Saxon
Prepositions in Gothic, Old High German and Old Saxon which designate separation from their object are studied semantically in order to determine how they function both individually and as members of a sub-system of prepositions within the entire system of prepositions. The prepositions are Gothic …
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Literal and figurative meanings of Spanish spatial prepositions in Chinese students’ acquisition of Spanish as a third language
… the degree of acquisition and use of these prepositions in English compared to Spanish, and if so, what the characteristics of these differences are. To try to answer these questions, the performance of this group of participants in four behavioural tests is compared. The tests were a …
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Rektionsschwankungen des präpositionalen Kasusgebrauchs. Die Genitiv- und Dativrektion bei Sekundärpräpositionen im diachronen Verlauf
… case system in the government of secondary prepositions. In contemporary speech, secondary prepositions mainly govern the genitive or dative, without any semantic difference. In diachronic progression, it can often be observed that the case government shifts from genitive to dative and vice …
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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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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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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 semantics of role labeling
… linguistic constructions such as commas and prepositions We develop an ontology of predicate-argument relations that commas and prepositions express in text. Just like the verb and nominal semantic role labeling schemes, the relations we propose are domain independent. For these two classes …
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