A multilingual analysis of the notion of instrumentality

  • Authors:

  • Asanee Kawtrakul;Mukda Suktarachan;Bali Ranaivo-Malancon;Pek Kuan Ng;Achla Raina;Sudeshna Sarkar;Alda Mari;Sina Zarriess;Elixabete Murguia;Patrick Saint-Dizier

  • Affiliations:

  • Kasetsart univ. Bangkok, Thailand;Kasetsart univ. Bangkok, Thailand;Univ. Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia;Univ. Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia;IIT Kanpur, India;IIT Kharagpur, India;Enst-Cnrs, Paris, France;Universität Potsdam, Germany;Univ. Deusto, Bilbao, Spain;Irit-Cnrs, Toulouse, France

  • Venue:
  • Prepositions '06 Proceedings of the Third ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Instruments are expressed in language by various means: prepositions, postpositions, affixes including case marks, nonfinite verbs, etc. We consider here 12 languages from five families in order to be able to identify the different meaning components that structure instrumentality.