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 Trawi´nski 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.