Introduction to the Syntax and Semantics of Prepositions

Abstract

This first chapter presents basic issues related to preposition syntax and seman-tics. It introduces different ways to view the syntax of prepositions: relational, functional and lexical. It also shows the high degree of polysemy of a number of prepositions and develops some directions to deal with preposition seman-tics, in particular designed for natural language processing systems, based on the Lexical Conceptual Structure and underspecification