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The Identification and Description of Frozen Prepositional Phrases through a Corpus-Oriented Study

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This research is a corpus-based analysis of Brazilian Portuguese prepositional phrases that have a frozen status. Based on a previous list, elaborated for parser PALAVRAS (Bick, 2000), we examine the PPs frozen syntactic behavior and propose three different PPs syntactic-semantic sets, which are true assets for lexicographic purpose and NLP lexical resource.

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António Teixeira Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima Luís Caldas de Oliveira Paulo Quaresma

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Garrão, M., Quental, V., Caminada, N., Bick, E. (2008). The Identification and Description of Frozen Prepositional Phrases through a Corpus-Oriented Study. In: Teixeira, A., de Lima, V.L.S., de Oliveira, L.C., Quaresma, P. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5190. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85980-2_24

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