this study was an attempt to examine the relationship between iranian efl students’ general knowledge of english and their use of english prepositions. to discover whether there was any sig- nificant relationship between efl university and high school students’ english proficiency level and their performance on a preposition test, three groups of beginning, intermediate, and upper intermediate ...

There are differing theories concerning the construction dubbed swiping by Merchant 2002. Some theories predict that the inverted preposition/wh-word order characteristic of swiping is idiosyncratic to prepositions and wh-words in particular and does not generalize to other elements. Other theories predict that swiping is merely a particular instantiation of a generalizable possibility for inve...

Some students with intellectual disabilities require explicit instruction of language skills, including preposition use; however, little is known about effective ways to teach preposition use to this population. This study examined direct instruction (DI) to teach students to use and respond to prepositions. Results indicated that DI was an effective way to teach prepositions. Limitations and d...

Prepositions are highly polysemous. Yet, little effort has been spent to develop languagespecific annotation schemata for preposition senses to systematically represent and analyze the polysemy of prepositions in large corpora. In this paper, we present an annotation schema for preposition senses in German. The annotation schema includes a hierarchical taxonomy and also allows multiple annotati...

which the primary object is located the reference object. In order to use projective prepositions, the speaker has to establish a reference frame (that is, an orientation) that determines the direction in which the primary object is located in relation to the reference object. The reference frame can be established in different ways. One way is to use the intrinsic orientation of the reference ...

Sense disambiguation for prepositions is used within a paraphrase recognition system. ‘With’ is chosen to explore our approach of using information from WordNet (hypernym and meronym relations) and LCS (verb lexical information); similar concepts can be used for other prepositions. This paper describes the senses of ‘with’, the disambiguation model, evaluation process, and results.

This paper describes ongoing work, aimed at producing a lexicon of prepositions, i.e. relations denoted by prepositions, to be used for information retrieval purposes. The work is ontology based, which for this project means that the ontological types of the arguments of the preposition are considered, rather than the word forms. Thus, sense distinctions are made based on ontological constraint...

In this document, we analyze several aspects related to the semantics of prepositions. We propose an approach and elements of a method to organize and to represent prepositions uses and senses. Complex polysemous behaviors are discussed, showing the use and limits of the approach.