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Prepositions are considered as frequent linguistic units whose role in computational linguistics cannot be neglected. These units are often thought to have no lexical meaning; moreover, it is a widely held belief that prepositions are solely used for sentence cohesion. On the other hand, in some cases the substitution of one particular preposition with another one would change the meaning of sentences.
The main question which is concerned in this thesis is “Whether prepositions should be regarded as meaningful units or semantically empty units?” In order to achieve this goal, the present study is conducted as a library research and a field research. In the library research, 1000... 

In the last decades, Reaction Time research has been extended to cognitive science and more specifically human information-processing research and has gained momentum (Shim, 1996). The present study examined the reaction time in processing marked and unmarked structures with regard to the four types of conditionals (considered as unmarked, less marked, marked and strongly markedness, respectively) and prepositions (preposition pied piping that is considered as unmarked and preposition stranding as marked). To this end, two softwares were developed for which the items relating to conditionals were chosen from the Bernet’s test (1985) and the ones pertinent to prepositions were taken from...