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Relational Morphology: A Cousin of Construction Grammar [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Relational morphology (RM) is a novel approach to word structure that bears a close relation to construction grammar (CxG). Based on the parallel architecture framework, its basic question is: what linguistic entities are stored in long-term memory, and ...
Ray Jackendoff +2 more
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Hierarchy in Fluid Construction Grammars [PDF]
, 2005 This paper reports further progress into a computational implementation of a new formalism for construction grammar, known as Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG). We focus in particular on how hierarchy can be implemented. The paper analyses the requirements for a proper treatment of hierarchy in emergent grammar and then proposes a particular solution ...
De Beule, Joachim, Steels, Luc
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Multiword Constructions in the Grammar [PDF]
Topics in Cognitive Science, 2017 AbstractThere is ample evidence that speakers’ linguistic knowledge extends well beyond what can be described in terms of rules of compositional interpretation stated over combinations of single words. We explore a range of multiword constructions (MWCs) to get a handle both on the extent of the phenomenon and on the grammatical constraints that may ...
Culicover, P. +2 more
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Constructing a protolanguage: reconstructing prehistoric languages in a usage-based construction grammar framework. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2021 Hartmann S, Pleyer M.
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Argument Structure of the Persian Perception verb “didæn”: Goldberg's Construction Grammar Approach [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2021 Perception verbs as important category of verbs are used to represent perceptual events related to human and other conscious creatures. This article examines the argument structure of the most important perception verb in Persian, i.e.
Fatemeh Zakeri +2 more
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Lexical Functional Grammar as a Construction Grammar
Journal of Language Modelling, 2023 Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) is a lexicalist, constraint-based grammatical theory that shares a lot of the basic assumptions of Construction Grammar (CxG), such as a commitment to surface-oriented descriptions (no transformations), and the ...
Jamie Y. Findlay
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Časopis pro Moderní Filologii, 2022 The text focuses on the Czech construction whose instances include expressions such as muž s velkým M ‘a man with a capital M’ and herečka s velkým H ‘an actress with a capital A’.
Jakub Sláma
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The FCG Editor: An innovative environment for engineering computational construction grammars.
PLoS ONE, 2022 Since its inception in the mid-eighties, the field of construction grammar has been steadily growing and constructionist approaches to language have by now become a mainstream paradigm for linguistic research. While the construction grammar community has
Remi van Trijp +2 more
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Clarifying Some Issues in Construction Grammar Studies
Contemporary Social Sciences, 2021 “Form-meaning pair” is not a distinctive feature of constructions, but a universal feature of all things. A construction must be a structure. Morphemes are the smallest sound-meaning assemblies, but they only represent a symbolic relationship which ...
Lu Jianming, and Wu Haibo
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Caused-Motion Constructions in Chinese: A constructional-cognitive analysis
Ampersand, 2020 This paper adopts the tenets of Cognitive Construction Grammar [1,2] and Cognitive Grammar [3,4] and applies them to the Caused-Motion Constructions in English and Chinese, which has not been effectively studied in the field.
Ronald Fong
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