Formal methodsHigher-order logicThe paper proposes two new methods for analyzing case and adposition meaning. The method for analyzing case and adposition semantics is based on an analysis of semes (semantic components) as arguments and predicates in a higher-order logic. The method for case and...
While many languages use adpositions to encode semantic relationships between content words in a sentence (e.g., agentivity or temporality), the details of how adpositions work vary widely across languages with respect to both form and meaning. In this paper, we empirically adapt the SNACS ...
GermanAdpositions and case markers are ubiquitous in natural language and express a wide range of meaning relations that can be of crucial relevance for many NLP and AI tasks. However, capturing their semantics in a comprehensive yet concise, as well as cross-linguistically applicable way has ...
Meaning changePolygrammaticalizationThis study explores the historical evolution of the English causal adposition thanks to and its Korean counterpart tekpwuney from the prespective of grammaticalization, comparing and contrasting the two adpositions to show the commonalities and differences. These two ad...