The functions of locative prepositions

1996 ◽  
pp. 361
Author(s):  
Ebbe Spang-Hanssen ◽  
Henrik Rue
Keyword(s):  
Locative Prepositions

Trainable Children Can Learn Adjectives, Polars, and Prepositions!

1977 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlys Mitchell ◽  
Carolyn Evans ◽  
John Bernard
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
Chronological Age ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Achievement Gains ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Mentally Retarded Children ◽  
Locative Prepositions ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
Trainable Mentally Retarded

Twelve trainable mentally retarded children were given six weeks of instruction in the use of adjectives, polars, and locative prepositions. Specially prepared Language Master cards constituted the program. Posttests indicated that children in the older chronological age group earned significantly higher scores than those in the younger group. Children in the younger group made significant increases in scores, particularly in learning prepositions. A multisensory approach and active involvement in learning appeared to be major factors in achievement gains.

Neural correlates of locative prepositions

2008 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 1576-1580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthijs L. Noordzij ◽  
Sebastiaan F.W. Neggers ◽  
Nick F. Ramsey ◽  
Albert Postma
Keyword(s):  
Neural Correlates ◽  
Locative Prepositions

Neuroanatomical correlates of locative prepositions

2004 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 719-749 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Tranel ◽  
David Kemmerer
Keyword(s):  
Locative Prepositions

Expressing prospective location in French: rethinking Vandeloise’s ‘principle of anticipation’

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Mark Tutton
Keyword(s):  
Verbs Of Motion ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Locative Prepositions ◽  
Spatial Entity ◽  
Spatial Semantics

Abstract Vandeloise’s (1987, 2017) principle of anticipation proposes that French verbs of motion can enable prospective readings of static locative prepositions. However, it has little to say about verbs of motion that do not have a prospective verbal reference place (VRP): that is, to what extent are verbs of initial polarity like partir and s’enfuir able to trigger prospective readings of prepositions? This article argues that each verb must be analysed individually and that prospective readings of prepositions depend on the interaction of verbal and prepositional semantics: for example, the movement away from a viewer expressed by partir favours a prospective reading of derrière but not of devant: this is due to differences regarding access to perception. The animacy of the Ground and its status as a material or spatial entity (Vandeloise, 2017) is also a key factor (e.g. partir près de + spatial entity). This suggests that verbs of initial polarity participate in synergistic verb/preposition/Ground interpretations that help to overcome their lack of a VRP. The prospective reading of the preposition depends on the choice of verb and Ground, thus supporting a distributed view of spatial semantics (Sinha and Kuteva, 1995; Zlatev, 1997, 2003, 2007; Evans and Tyler, 2004).

New prepositions in the house

2021 ◽  
pp. 472-494
Author(s):  
Kersti Börjars ◽  
Nigel Vincent ◽  
Sam Wolfe
Keyword(s):  
Time Course ◽  
Source Terms ◽  
Old Icelandic ◽  
Old Swedish ◽  
Locative Prepositions

In the literature on semantic and categorial change French chez and Mainland Scandinavian hos are often cited together as parallel examples of locative prepositions deriving from nouns referring to the concept ‘house’. In this paper we compare in detail the philological records and the more recent development of the two items as well as that of the cognate Insular Scandinavian hjá. We show that while there are similarities in the development of Latin CASA / French chez and hos, as frequently suggested in the literature, there are also significant divergences. We argue in favour of a reevaluation of the origin of hos aligning it with hjá rather than casa as suggested in Noreen (1892), and show that if so revised, the differences can be shown to arise from the different meanings of the source terms: Latin casa ‘hut, house’ and later ‘place’ as opposed to Old Swedish hos and Old Icelandic hjá ‘group of people, company’. We then go on to explore the consequences of these different diachronic trajectories for our general understanding of the connected semantic and syntactic developments and the time course of categorial change.

Gesture-enhanced recasts have limited effects: A case of the regular past tense

2019 ◽  
pp. 136216881987028 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimi Nakatsukasa
Keyword(s):  
Repeated Measure ◽  
Past Tense ◽  
Production Test ◽  
Esl Students ◽  
Oral Production ◽  
The Past ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Locative Prepositions ◽  
Learning Types ◽  
Us University

This study investigates whether gesture-enhanced recasts lead to better production of the English regular past tense. Fifty-nine low-intermediate ESL students at a US university took part in communicative activities in class, during which they received, respectively, no feedback, verbal recasts, or gesture-enhanced recasts, the latter being a verbal recast accompanied by a point-back gesture indicating the non-target-like use or absence of the past tense. All learners also completed two assessments, a grammar test about the regular past tense and an oral production test that was designed to elicit the regular past tense, as a pre-test, an immediate post-test, and a delayed post-test a week later. Then, a repeated-measure ANOVA was used to analyse the linguistic development, using the obtained test scores. The results showed that there was no difference across the conditions in the grammar test, owing to the ceiling effect. On the other hand, learners significantly improved from the pre-test to the post-test in the oral production test, but there were no differences across the conditions. This contradicts a previous finding that teachers’ pedagogical gestures during recasts better facilitated the development of locative prepositions. Further, this study discusses how learning types (rule-based vs. item-based) involved in two different linguistic targets and different gestures used in the two studies may affect the efficacy of recasts.

A minimalist approach to the syntax of p

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-45
Author(s):  
Cristina Real-Puigdollers
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Romance Languages ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Functional Domain ◽  
Functional Projection ◽  
Extended Projection ◽  
Minimalist Approach ◽  
Locative Prepositions ◽  
Syntactic Properties

Abstract This paper proposes a minimalist analysis of locative prepositions in Central Catalan, from a comparative perspective. Specifically, I claim that certain semantic and syntactic properties that are usually considered part of the field of the extended projection of PPs in cartographic approaches (categories like Place, Degree, K, and AxPart, for example) are in fact properties of the DP in the complement of a preposition. This claim takes the view that adpositions are a functional projection that relates two DPs, the Figure and the Ground, and not a lexical head that projects a functional domain on its own, as Ns, Vs or As (cf. den Dikken 2010; Koopman 2000). The final part of the paper proposes a model to account for the variation that locative prepositions exhibit across Romance languages following the Conjecture of Borer (1984) (known as the Borer-Chomsky Conjecture since Baker 2008). More precisely, I propose a model in which microparametric differences among Romance simple locative prepositions depend on the particular composition of features in p.

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