At present, linguists do not have sufficient tools to strictly determine whether specific prepositional units belong prepositions as a part of speech, so it seems relevant consider the functional-grammatical field prepositions, which includes both themselves and that can function prepositions. The aim this article is identify, classify describe systemic paradigmatic relations within study was c...

The aim of the present study is threefold. The first is that whether there is any difference betweendifferent proficiency level language learners 'use of spatial prepositions. The Second aim is toreveal that if the native language of the participants has any effect on applying the appropriateprepositions and also to find which spatial preposition is difficult to acquire. The present paperexamin...

The aim of the paper is to present general understanding incorporation and compare contrast it in English Lithuanian. Generally incorporated constructions are understood as which a verb one its arguments form particularly tight unit. Incorporation typical many Siberian North American language families. Although Lithuanian do not belong them, some types can be identified their grammatical struct...

We extend our n-gram-based data-driven prediction approach from the Helping Our Own (HOO) 2011 Shared Task (Boyd and Meurers, 2011) to identify determiner and preposition errors in non-native English essays from the Cambridge Learner Corpus FCE Dataset (Yannakoudakis et al., 2011) as part of the HOO 2012 Shared Task. Our system focuses on three error categories: missing determiner, incorrect de...

We explore two approaches to model complement types (NPs and PPs) in an Englishto-German SMT system: A simple abstract representation inserts pseudo-prepositions that mark the beginning of noun phrases, to improve the symmetry of source and target complement types, and to provide a flat structural information on phrase boundaries. An extension of this representation generates context-aware synt...

The realization of singular count nouns without an accompanying determiner inside a PP (determinerless PP, bare PP, Preposition-Noun Combination) has recently attracted some interest in computational linguistics. Yet, the relevant factors for determiner omission remain unclear, and conditions for determiner omission vary from language to language. We present a logistic regression model of deter...

In this paper we present an analysis and a model for the notions of instrumentality and manner through the study of the preposition avec

This paper is a report on an analysis of the English preposition like. I investigated the 101,096 occurrences of this preposition in the British National Corpus (BNC). What is its normal role and function? It seems that like has a central role to play in cognition, more powerful than metaphor and going far beyond mere comparison of similarities. It is a truism that like introduces similes (e.g....