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Semantic Network of Adposition and Case Supersenses: Annotation Guidelines
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ABROAD #82

Open esmanning opened 4 years ago

esmanning commented 4 years ago

go teach English ABROAD Reddit task_005 new_doc id = 2cb640c9-0c11-2d7f-8f3e-19dc8bcf165c sent_id = 1

This was marked as a target, but we didn't find precedent for ABROAD in the guidelines or xposition, and weren't sure if it should really be a target. Not a real preposition, but perhaps similar to HOME?

nschneid commented 4 years ago

Yeah similar to HOME. It falls under the expansive definition from CGEL (e.g. you can go home/abroad which expresses motion toward a place like a to-PP).

nschneid commented 4 years ago

We can call these "closed-class directional locatives".

esmanning commented 4 years ago

Oh, this sentence might also be ambiguous - does that still apply if ABROAD modifies 'teach' rather than 'go'? (with HOME I think you'd have to add an 'at' for that)

nschneid commented 4 years ago

Then it's just locative. "Here/there" are other locatives that don't require a preposition. But most locations do. (The preposition is more optional with times, e.g. "I'll see you (on) Thursday.")