Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions

- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction to the Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions; Patrick Saint-Dizier
- Prepostion Contractions in Quebec French; Luc V. Baronian
- The A's and BE's of English Prepositions; Andrew McMichael
- Typological Tendencies and Universal Grammar in the Acquisition of Adpositions; David Stringer
- Multilingual inventory of interpretations for postpositions and prepositions; Mikel Lersundi and Eneko Agirre
- German prepositions and their kin; Martin Volk
- Directionality Selection; Marcus Kracht
- Verb-Particle Constructions in the World Wide Web; Aline Villavicencio
- Prepositional Arguments in a Multilingual Context; Valia Kordoni
- The syntax of French à and de: an HPSG analysis; Anne Abeille, Olvier Bonami, Danièle Godard, Jesse Tseng
- In Search of a Systematic Treatment of Determinerless PPs, Timothy Baldwin, John Beavers, Leonoor van der Beek, Francis Bond, Dan Flickinger and Ivan A. Sag
- Combinatorial Aspects of Collocational Prepositional Phrases; Beata TrawiŽnski and Manfred Sailer and Jan-Philipp Soehn
- Distributional Similarity andPreposition Semantics; Timothy Baldwin
- A Computational Model of the Referential Semantics of Projective Prepositions; John Kelleher and Josef van Genabith
- Ontology-Based Semantics for Prepositions; Per Anker Jensen and Jörgen Fischer Nilsson
- Analysis and Interpretation of the Japanese Postposition No; Ryusuke Kikuchi and Hidetosi Sirai
- What do the notions of instrumentality and of manner have in common?; Alda Mari
- A Conceptual Semantics for Prepositions denoting Instrumentality; Alda Mari, Patrick Saint-Dizier
- Prepositions in Cooperative Question-Answering Systems:a Preliminary Analysis; Farah Benamara and Véronique Moriceau
- Index

From the reviews: "The base of the book is a workshop on the syntax and semantics of prepositions, organized in Toulouse in 2003. The book is an argument of the statement that: prepositions are a useful category of language, closely related to semantics structures, are essential in many applications, are taken into account in machine translation and lexical choice in language generation. a ] The book is readable, valuable for novices in the field, and for students and researchers also." (E. Kostolanksky, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1095 (21), 2006)