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On the Syntax-Semantics Interface of Argument Marking Prepositional Phrases

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Highlights on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

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The paper investigates a class of argument marking prepositional phrases that have two roles when they occur in some verb phrases. Primarily, such prepositional phrases provide the head verb with a noun phrase as one of its dependents, casting syntax-semantics correlations in the internal argument structure of the verb phrase. Additionally, they can carry substantial semantic information. The paper contributes to methods of language processing by integrated algorithmic syntax-semantics interface. The work is part of development of a new type-theoretic approach to the concepts of algorithm and algorithmic syntax-semantics interfaces.

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  1. Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden

    Roussanka Loukanova

  2. GRLMC Research group on Mathematical Linguistics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

    M. Dolores Jiménez-López

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  1. Escuela Universitaria de Informática, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Compañía 5, Salamanca, 37002, Spain

    Javier Bajo Pérez

  2. , Facultad de Informática, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Compañía 5, Salamanca, 37002, Spain

    Miguel A. Sánchez

  3. Technologies de Lille, LIFL UMR CNRS 8022, Université des Sciences et, Bâtiment M3 (extension), Villeneuve d’Ascq, 59655, France

    Philippe Mathieu

  4. Faculty of Science, Department of Computing Science, University of Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced S/N, Salamanca, 37008, Spain

    Juan M. Corchado Rodríguez

  5. , LAMIH (UMR CNRS 8530), Universite de Valenciennes, Le Mont Houy, Valenciennes, 59313, France

    Emmanuel Adam

  6. , Departamento de Ingeniería, Ciudad Universitaria de Cantoblanco, Madrid, 28049, Spain

    Alfonso Ortega

  7. Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced S/N, Salamanca, 37008, Spain

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  8. , Departamento de Informática, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Campus Universitario s/n, Albacete, 02071, Spain

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  9. EBTIC, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi Campus, Abu Dhabi, Utd.Arab.Emir.

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Loukanova, R., Jiménez-López, M.D. (2012). On the Syntax-Semantics Interface of Argument Marking Prepositional Phrases. In: Pérez, J., et al. Highlights on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 156. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28762-6_7

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