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...

One of the defining properties of Marshallese (Austronesian, Oceanic, Micronesian) long passives is that they allow one of two prepositions in what roughly corresponds to English by phrases. These prepositions are ippa:n and in. Although the semantics of these two prepositions appears to be identical in passives (i.e. both introduce an agent phrase), there are syntactic differences between sent...

BACKGROUND The ability of children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) to use and comprehend closed-class words. AIM Acknowledging the increasing search for the characterization of linguistic performance of this population in different languages, as well as the findings of international literature that stress the difficulty of these children in using closed-class grammatical morphemes, th...

The ability to understand spatial prepositions and motion in natural language will enable a variety of new applications involving systems that can respond to verbal directions, map travel guides, display incident reports, etc., providing for enhanced information extraction, question-answering, information retrieval, and more principled text to scene rendering. Until now, however, the semantics ...

Rather than specifying spatial relations with a closed-class set of prepositions, American Sign Language (ASL) encodes spatial relations using space itself via classifier constructions. In these constructions, handshape morphemes specify object type, and the position of the hands in signing space schematically represents the spatial relation between objects. A [15O]water PET study was conducted...

The process of learning prepositions gets complicated most notably for learners English as foreign language (EFL) because they encounter challenges in grasping the manifold meanings and dissimilar contextual applications. This study is aimed at identifying sources difficulty that Indonesia undergo preposition. To this end, a multiple-choice test was designed to gather data regarding problems ac...