meaning of the preposition 0.014 length of the extracted phrase 0.036 spatial meaning of the preposition 0.04 agentivity of the head noun 0.104 phrasal-prepositional verbs 0.114 frequency of the preposition 0.115 barrierhood of the extracted phrase 0.119 prepositional verbs 0.126 concreteness of the head noun 0.132 copula as verb 0.153 entrenchment of the head noun 0.165 intransitive verbs 0.16...

Misuse of Chinese prepositions is one of common word usage errors in grammatical error diagnosis. In this paper, we adopt the Chinese Gigaword corpus and HSK corpus as L1 and L2 corpora, respectively. We explore gated recurrent neural network model (GRU), and an ensemble of GRU model and maximum entropy language model (GRU-ME) to select the best preposition from 43 candidates for each test sent...

Spatial annotations form part of the Semantic Annotation Framework (SemAF). The current development SemAF-Space (ISO 24617-7) provides a formal specification but does not provide annotation guidelines. In my talk I will compare this approach with the approach developed for the annotation of preposition senses in Müller et al. (2011), where the annotation guidelines form the annotation specifica...

Most work in ‘evolutionary linguistics’ seeks to motivate the emergence of linguistic universals. Although the search for universals never played a major role in semantics, a number of such universals have been proposed concerning connectives, property and preposition denoting expressions, and quantifiers. In this paper we suggest some evolutionary motivations for these proposed universals usin...

In this paper, we present an approach to the automatic identification and correction of preposition and determiner errors in nonnative (L2) English writing. We show that models of use for these parts of speech can be learned with an accuracy of 70.06% and 92.15% respectively on L1 text, and present first results in an error detection task for L2 writing.

Tsimpli and Dimitrakopoulou (2007) observed that uninterpretable features are unavailable in second language (L2) acquisition after the critical period. In this paper, we verify this claim by providing evidence from Persian speaking learners of English as an L2 on the status of resumptive pronouns (RPs) as uniterpretable features. Unlike English which does not allow RPs, Persian shows various b...

The impact of previously learned knowledge on newly has long been recognized and named as interference. Interference in language is the influence a any target language. Named transfer, this notion may render learning process harder for learners results fossilization some cases. Thus, researchers teachers should consider find ways to repair damages it might cause. In order provide field with stu...

Chinese space-time prepositions (CSTPs) are a class of function words used to introduce relations into motion or state, which have experienced the process evolution from ancient Chinese. In recent years, research on modern CTSPs shows trend grammaticalization research, cognitive semantic and based constructionalization lexicalization. At present, there few studies systematic description in ling...