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Scitus Academics LLC Adpositions Pragmatic semantic and syntactic perspectives by Esmond Mynatt
Prepositions and postpositions, together called adpositions, are a class of
words that express spatial or temporal relations or mark various semantic
roles. However, some linguists prefer to use the well-known and longer
established term preposition in place of adposition, irrespective of position
relative to the complement. Adpositions have been studied from various
points of view, including syntax, semantics, and neurolinguistics, and this
compilation contains chapters devoted to each of these. though, adpositions
can be considered a fundamental part of speech because using lexemes
only does not suffice to build a sentence, at least one which is recognized as
complete and is not reduced to a one-word exclamation or interrogation.
Certain tools are necessary to link lexemes to one another and to the whole
sentence, thereby setting up dependency relationships. Preposition selection
is important in any NLP application that operates at the syntaxsemantics
interface, that is, that overtly translates surface strings onto
semantic representations, or vice versa. Research on the formal semantics of
prepositions has focused predominantly on devising representations for
temporal, spatial, and locative usages, the three most productive and coherent
classes of prepositions. Prepositions can be used in order to convey temporal
information relevant to the duration of a proposition.
Adpositions: Pragmatic, semantic and syntactic perspectives deal with the
studies of adpositions in a variety of languages and from a number of
perspectives. It discusses the internal structure of adpositional phrases and
provides evidence for the view that, even when analyzing one single
language, distinct syntactic patterns need to be set up in order to cope
adequately with the data.
This Book will be of interest to students and researchers in theoretical and
applied linguistics, in addition to those who have a special interest in any of
the languages treated.