English Prepositions Explained
English Prepositions Explained

Author: Seth Lindstromberg

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9027211736

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This completely revised and expanded edition of "English Prepositions Explained (EPE)," originally published in 1998, " "covers approximately 100 simple, compound, and phrasal English prepositions of space and time with the focus being on short prepositions such as "at, by, in, "and "on. "Its target readership includes teachers of ESOL, pre-service translators and interpreters, undergraduates in English linguistics programs, studious advanced learners and users of English, and anyone who is inquisitive about the English language. The overall aim is to explain how and why meaning changes when one preposition is swapped for another in the same context. While retaining most of the structure of the original, this edition says more about more prepositions. It includes many more figures virtually all new. The exposition draws on recent research, and is substantially founded on evidence from digitalized corpora, including frequency data. "EPE" gives information and insights that will not be found in dictionaries and grammar handbooks."

Under, Over, By the Clover
Under, Over, By the Clover

Author: Brian P. Cleary

Publisher: Millbrook Press ™

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1467743690

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Have fun learning about language! In this fun-filled book, playful puns and comical cartoon cats combine to show, not tell, readers what prepositions are all about. Each preposition in the text, like under, over, by the clover, about, throughout, and next to Rover, is highlighted in color for easy identification. This is the newest addition to the Words Are CATagorical series, which has sold more than 2.9 million copies.

Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions
Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions

Author: Patrick Saint-Dizier

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-01-18

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9781402038495

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This book is the first to provide an integrated view of preposition from morphology to reasoning, via syntax and semantics. It offers new insights in applied and formal linguistics, and cognitive science. It underlines the importance of prepositions in a number of computational linguistics applications, such as information retrieval and machine translation. The reader will benefit from a wide range of views and applications to various linguistic frameworks, among which, most notably, HPSG. The book is for researchers working in the fields of computational linguistics, linguistics, and artificial intelligence.

Perfect Prepositions
Perfect Prepositions

Author: Galina Kimber

Publisher:

Published: 2005-12

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780595822560

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As high frequency words, prepositions are one of the most dynamic parts of speech. Perfect Prepositions shows the meanings and usage of prepositions in Modern English. Used in unstressed syllables and pronounced fast and softly in oral speech, prepositions are often barely distinguishable to the listener. Prepositions can also pose communication problems for English learners and even native speakers. Author Galina Kimber provides general and specific information on the meanings of prepositions as well as ideas on usage as they are applied today. Living languages constantly evolve over time, and reference books like Perfect Prepositions reflect these changes. Perfect Prepositions details different ways of defining the meanings of almost one hundred prepositions written in semantic categories and subcategories that are easy to understand and use in daily life. It's a useful resource for those desiring to improve their communication skills.

Understanding Prepositions
Understanding Prepositions

Author: Howard Sargeant

Publisher: Learners Publishing Pte Limited

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 9789814107136

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This book offers advice on how to recognize, understand and use prepositions correctly. In the study section the role of prepositions in phrasal verbs is explained and analysed, and in reference section the prepositions are listed alphabetically, and their uses illustrated with numerous examples.

The Semantics of Prepositions
The Semantics of Prepositions

Author: Michel Aurnague & Laure Vieu

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 9783110136340

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A reconsideration of the semantics of a lexical category--prepositions--that has recently witnessed a plethora of investigations. The volume approaches the issue first from a more general perspective, namely the extent to which insights into the meaning of prepositions give clues to the semantic structure of lexical units and its processing in general. It goes on to deal with the meaning of prepositions from the perspective of how natural language processing can benefit from the insights of theoretical linguistics, especially with respect to machine translation and image understanding. Most of the papers were originally presented at a workshop held in February 1990 at the Institut fur Angewandte Informationsforschung. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

English Prepositions Explained
English Prepositions Explained

Author: Seth Lindstromberg

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2010-08-11

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 9027287899

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This completely revised and expanded edition of English Prepositions Explained (EPE), originally published in 1998, covers approximately 100 simple, compound, and phrasal English prepositions of space and time – with the focus being on short prepositions such as at, by, in, and on. Its target readership includes teachers of ESOL, pre-service translators and interpreters, undergraduates in English linguistics programs, studious advanced learners and users of English, and anyone who is inquisitive about the English language. The overall aim is to explain how and why meaning changes when one preposition is swapped for another in the same context. While retaining most of the structure of the original, this edition says more about more prepositions. It includes many more figures – virtually all new. The exposition draws on recent research, and is substantially founded on evidence from digitalized corpora, including frequency data. EPE gives information and insights that will not be found in dictionaries and grammar handbooks.

Prepositions and Particles in English
Prepositions and Particles in English

Author: Elizabeth M. O'Dowd

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1998-07-23

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0195354923

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Elizabeth M. O'Dowd offers a new, discourse-functional account of the categories "preposition" and "particle" in English. She explains why certain words have membership in both categories, and solves many intriguing puzzles long associated with the syntax and semantics of these words. Based on linguistic data extracted from a series of actual conversations, O'Dowd provides new insights into how prepositions and particles are used, and how their meanings can change across different discourse contexts over time.