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Cognition in construction grammar: Connecting individual and community grammars

, 2020
This paper examines, on the basis of a longitudinal corpus of 50 early modern authors, how change at the aggregate level of the community interacts with variation and change at the micro-level of the individual language user. In doing so, this study aims
Lynn Anthonissen
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Nostalgia for the future of Construction Grammar

Constructions and Frames
Construction Grammar is a nomadic family of theoretical approaches whose members are constantly moving in various directions. The diversity in construction-based approaches is a clear sign of a thriving and tolerant research community, but it also ...
Remi van Trijp
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Can Construction Grammar Be Proven Wrong?

Construction Grammar has gained prominence in linguistics, owing its popularity to its inclusive approach that considers language units of varying sizes and generality as potential constructions – mentally stored form-function units.
Bert Cappelle
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Multimodal Construction Grammar [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
This article explores the extension of cognitive linguistics, especially construction grammar, to multimodal communication. Its dataset is a vast repository of hundreds of thousands of hours of network news broadcasts, including not only language but also co-speech gesture, diagrams, and other aspects of audiovisual communication.
Mark Turner, Francis F. Steen
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Computational Construction Grammar

This Element introduces a usage-based computational approach to Construction Grammar that draws on techniques from natural language processing and unsupervised machine learning.
Jonathan Dunn
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Language and creativity: a Construction Grammar approach to linguistic creativity

Linguistics Vanguard, 2019
Creativity is an important evolutionary adaptation that allows humans to think original thoughts, to find solutions to problems that have never been encountered before and to fundamentally change the way we live.
Thomas Hoffmann
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Computational construction grammar for visual question answering

Linguistics Vanguard, 2019
In order to be able to answer a natural language question, a computational system needs three main capabilities. First, the system needs to be able to analyze the question into a structured query, revealing its component parts and how these are combined.
Jens Nevens, Paul Van Eecke, Katrien Beuls   +2 more
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Constructions across Grammars

2016
Up to now, most research in Construction Grammar has focused on single languages, most notably English. This volume aims to broaden the scope of Construction Grammar towards issues in bi- and multilingualism, second language learning, and generalizations across different languages and language varieties.
Jan-Ola Östman, Martin Hilpert
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The Role of Creativity in Multimodal Construction Grammar

Zeitschrift für Anglistik and Amerikanistik, 2018
Construction Grammar accepts responsibility to account for forms of creativity otherwise almost entirely ignored in linguistics. This commitment is wise, given that creativity is the engine that develops systems of communication.
Mark B. Turner
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Construction grammar in ICALL

Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2008
The choice of grammatical framework in ICALL – the branch of CALL that applies artificial intelligence techniques – has important implications for both research and development. Matthews (1993) argued for one ‘that potentially meshes with SLA (second language acquisition)’ (p.
Mathias Schulze, Nikolai Penner
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