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Experimental Entailments: The Case of Spatial Prepositions
NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2014 In this paper we present an experimental study on native speakers’ access to lexical relations among spatial relations. Our main focus is a still poorly understood domain: the lexical relations that hold between (pairs of) directional spatial ...
Francesco-Alessio Ursini
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Persian Spatial Prepositions: A Novel Logical Syntactical Approach to the Spatial Prepositions [PDF]
Studii si Cercetari Filologice: Seria Limbi Straine Aplicate, 2018 The goal of this paper is to analyze the syntax of spatial preposition in Persian language. This account is pretty novel as it analyzes the Persian prepositional phrases in a unified way, which does not restrict itself to some simple spatial ...
Rajdeep Singh
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On the syntax and semantics of Spanish spatial prepositions
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2013 The goal of this paper is to offer a novel account on the Syntax and Semantics of Spanish Spatial Prepositions. This account is novel in at least three aspects.
Francesco-Alessio Ursini
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Kilka uwag o rozwoju wtórnych przyimków przestrzennych [PDF]
Studia z Filologii Polskiej i Słowiańskiej, 2018 Some remarks about the development of secondary spatial prepositions The literature devoted to spatial prepositions is quite abundant. The present article constitutes a recapitulation of the historical research which has heretofore been done on the ...
Aleksandra Janowska
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English spatial prepositions with particular reference to Arabic-speaking learners. [PDF]
, 1995 The learner's first language (L1) plays a significant role in the learning of a second language (12). This role is depicted as interfering with acquisition and production of (L2).
Dera, Abdullah S.
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A computational model of the referential semantics of projective prepositions [PDF]
, 2006 In this paper we present a framework for interpreting locative expressions containing the prepositions in front of and behind. These prepositions have different semantics in the viewer-centred and intrinsic frames of reference (Vandeloise, 1991).
Kelleher, John +4 more
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Disambiguating spatial prepositions: The case of geo-spatial sense detection [PDF]
, 2022 patial relations in natural language are frequently expressed through prepositions. Thus, in the locative expressions “New York in the United States” and “the house on the river” the prepositions “in” and “on,” respectively, serve to communicate the ...
Gupta, Abhibha +7 more
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The Metaphorical Use of Spatial Prepositions in Sorani Dialect
Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2018 Metaphorical cognition arises from the mapping of two conceptual domains onto each other, Based on the theory of conceptual metaphors, the present study aims at analyzing the metaphorical use of spatial prepositions in Sorani Dialect weekly press ...
Anjuman Muhammad Sabir +1 more
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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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A semantic and language-based representation of an environmental scene [PDF]
, 2010 The modeling of a landscape environment is a cognitive activity that requires appropriate spatial representations. The research presented in this paper introduces a structural and semantic categorization of a landscape view based on panoramic photographs
LE YAOUANC, Jean-Marie +2 more
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