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Three basic prepositions in French and in English : a comparison
Corela, 2017 The spatial uses of the French prepositions à, dans and sur may be translated by either at, in, on or to, into, onto, depending on whether the landmark introduces the actual or the prospective position of the target.
Claude Vandeloise
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Locative and Directional Prepositions in Conceptual Spaces: The Role of Polar Convexity
Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 2015 We approach the semantics of prepositions from the perspective of conceptual spaces. Focusing on purely spatial locative and directional prepositions, we analyze both types of prepositions in terms of polar coordinates instead of Cartesian coordinates ...
Joost Zwarts, Peter Gärdenfors
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Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016 The current research paper attempted at investigating the use of prepositions of standard, prepositions of possession and prepositions of accompaniment by some Jordanian learners of English.
N. AlQbailat +2 more
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Şarkiyat Mecmuası, 2022 This study presents a comparative analysis focusing on the relationship between Chinese and Turkish prepositions and presents the strategies used for teaching Chinese prepositions to native Turkish speakers.
Lihua Li, Fatma Ecem Ceylan
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Region Prepositions: The View from French
Canadian Journal of Linguistics-revue Canadienne De Linguistique, 2021 The goal of this article is to offer a formal account of region prepositions in French. We define region prepositions as prepositions that denote non-oriented locations and resist modification with measure phrases (e.g., au nez de in #dix metres au nez ...
F. Ursini, Keith Tse
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Difficulties in using correct English prepositions among EFL students
JEES (Journal of English Educators Society), 2021 The objectives of this study are to find out the reasons of the problem related to using correct English prepositions and find some solutions. The participants were ten students at levels seven and eight, at the Faculty of Sciences and Arts.
Ibrahim Abdalla
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Comprehensive Supersense Disambiguation of English Prepositions and Possessives [PDF]
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018 Semantic relations are often signaled with prepositional or possessive marking—but extreme polysemy bedevils their analysis and automatic interpretation.
Nathan Schneider +8 more
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On nouns functioning as prepositions [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2012 This paper analyzes semantic transformations of nouns functioning as prepositions. The semantic characteristics of prepositions are discussed, and Belic’ concept of adverbial origin and meaning of prepositions is reviewed. Contrary to usual perception
Dragićević Rajna M.
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A Contrastive Analysis of the Use of Prepositions in German and Indonesian
Eralingua: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Asing dan Sastra, 2020 This study aims to describe the implication of contrastive analysis in the mastery of prepositions in German and Indonesian by identifying the similarities and differences in terms of morphology, semantics and syntax. This study employed library research
H. Hasmawati, M. R, Y. Yusri
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STILISTIC AND SYNTACTIC VARIATION OF GERMAN PREPOSITIONS
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2014 This work is devoted to the stylistic and syntactic variation of prepositions per and via in the publicistic style of modern German language. The similarity of German prepositions with the units of significant vocabulary in the aspect of variation is ...
E. L. Shubina
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