This book is the first to provide an integrated view of preposition frommorphology to reasoning via syntax and semantics. It offers new insights inapplied and f... » 

This book is the first to provide an integrated view of preposition frommorphology to reasoning via syntax and semantics. It offers new insights inapplied and formal linguistics and cognitive science. It underlines theimportance of prepositions in a number of computational linguisticsapplications such as information retrieval and machine translation. The readerwill benefit from a wide range of views and applications to various linguisticframeworks among which most notably HPSG. The book is for researchersworking in the fields of computational linguistics linguistics and artificialintelligence. TOCFrom the contents Introduction to the Syntax and Semantics ofPrepositions. Preposition Contractions in Quebec French. The As and BEs ofEnglish Prepositions. Typological Tendencies and Universal Grammar in theAcquisition of Adpositions. Multilingual Inventory of Interpretations forPostpositions and Prepositions. German Prepositions and their Kin.Directionality Selection. VerbParticle Constructions in the World Wide Web.Prepositional Arguments in a Multilingual Context. The Syntax of French andde an HPSG Analysis. In Search of a Systematic Treatment of DeterminerlessPPs. Combinatorial Aspects of Collocational Prepositional Phrases.Distributional Similarity and Preposition Semantics. A Computational Model ofthe Referential Semantics of Projective Prepositions. OntologyBased Semanticsfor Prepositions. Analysis and Interpretation of the Japanese PostpositionNo. What do the Notions of Instrumentality and of Manner have in Common?. AConceptual Semantics for Prepositions Denoting Instrumentality. Prepositionsin Cooperative QuestionAnswering Systems a Preliminary Analysis. «