The goal of the Object Disambiguation using Locative Prepositions project is to improve human-robot interaction by developing models for how humans use prepositional phrases to identify objects in a ...

“Whom” is having a rough couple of centuries. The object pronoun beloved by fans of proper English seems to be less popular than ever. And I don’t just mean in casual speech. I mean in published ...

Prepositions describe the relationship of words in a sentence. We use prepositions of location such as 'in', 'at' and 'on' to show the position of objects in the sentence. We use 'at' for specific ...

When a sentence uses a transitive verb to describe an action, it’s necessary for the subject to take a direct object and to act on it: “The woman spurned her suitor last week.” “Her suitor found a ...

Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Nov., 2000), pp. 531-573 (43 pages) Welsh has generally been analyzed as allowing two types of relative clauses and other A′-constructions, one involving ...