The morphological states of Guyana’s coastal system, at various spatial and temporal scales, are found to be influenced by the formation and migration of mudbanks. Stationary and propagating mudbanks along the coast are investigated with the use of multiple data sources, including aerial photographs, satellite imagery, GPS measurements, and a time series of coastal profile data (1941-1987...

Prepositions name spatial relationships (e.g., book on a table), but also abstract, non-spatial relationships (e.g., Jordan is on a roll)—raising the question of how the abstract uses relate to the concrete spatial uses. The two most frequently extended prepositions are in and on, and there has been no consensus about what aspects of spatial meaning they retain when used abstractly. We propose ...

In order to understand the spatial meaning of an utterance, comprehenders must integrate the spatial semantics of verbs and prepositions. For example, the spatial interpretation of at is typically non-directional, simply specifying a location in space: in the sentence Amy ran at the track, at only specifies the location of the running event. However, in the phrase threw at, the inherent directi...

Introduction: The accuracy of analyzing Functional MRI (fMRI) data is usually decreases in the presence of noise and artifact sources. A common solution in for analyzing fMRI data having high noise is to use suitable preprocessing methods with the aim of data denoising. Some effects of preprocessing methods on the parametric methods such as general linear model (GLM) have previously been evalua...

This paper shows the f a l l acy of th is claim. It addresses the problem of i n te rp re t ing and generating " l o c a t i v e p red i ca t i ons " (expressions made up of two noun-phrases gove rned by a preposi t ion used spa t i a l l y ) . It i d e n t i f i e s and describes a number of o b j e c t c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s beyond shape (sect ion I) and contextual f a c t o r s (sec t...

This paper deals with issues that a bidirectional GermanRussian machine translation system faces when the meaning of spatial prepositions in these languages does not line up. A uniform representation language is used to define the meaning of spatial prepositions in a language independent way. This formal language makes it possible to compare monolingual meaning representations and allows for th...

The categorical semantics of the primary taxis distant nonsimultaneity is actualized in statements with prepositions temporal vor and nach. term «primary non-simultaneity» should be understood as taxis-chronological precedence following. Primary non-simultaneity presence temporal-aspectual quantifiers statements, acting delimitators explicators non-simultaneity.

The objective in this paper is to present a framework for a system that describes objects in a qualitative fashion. A subset of spatial prepositions is chosen and an appropriate quantiication is applied to each of them that capture their inherent qualitative properties. The quantiications use such object attributes as area, centers, and elonga-tion properties. The familiar zeroth, rst, and seco...

Several studies of L2 learners’ interlanguage have addressed the complexity of the English adpositional system due to several reasons like L1 transfer, lack of knowledge in L2 and the strong collocational relations of prepositions with other elements of the English language. The major purpose of the present study is to evaluate the performance of Iranian students in dealing with three broad cat...