If we rely on the compositionality, some prepositions will appear to be conceptual: they can be modified by others. For example:
(1) Is the photo completely in the frame?
(2) It is completely beyond doubt that it is not.
Some others, may appear to be procedural: they cannot be modified.
(3) Tom lives in London. (*completely in London)
(4) They moved to Leeds in 1975. (* totally to Leed)
And as can be seen from (1) and (3), encoded in the single linguistic form IN is both conceptual and procedural information.
We may need to define what is preposition first.
Minh
--- On Thu, 6/25/09, Mai Zaki <maizaki@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Mai Zaki <maizaki@gmail.com>
Subject: RT list: Prepositions and conceptual/procedural meaning?
To:
Date: Thursday, June 25, 2009, 7:15 AM
Hello everyone,
I was wondering if any work has been done on prepositions in relation to what kind of meaning they encode. Has it been suggested before that some prepositions can encode procedural meaning?
Thanks a lot.
Mai Zaki
Middlesex University
Received on Mon Jul 6 01:35:47 2009
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