Reassessing Constructions in the ARTEMIS Parser
Journal of English Studies, 2022 The aim of this study is to reexamine the status of constructions in ARTEMIS (Automatically Representing TExt Meaning via an Interlingua-based System), a Natural Language Understanding prototype that seeks to provide the syntactic and semantic structure
Francisco Cortés Rodríguez +1 more
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LEXICAL-SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF SECONDARY ASPECTUAL VERBS IN SERBIAN
Filolog, 2021 The present research is an attempt at systematic and consistent formal analysis of lexical semantics of Serbian secondary aspectual verbs krenuti, uzeti and stati.
Наташа Р. Миливојевић
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Constructional Borrowing From English in Hong Kong Cantonese
Frontiers in Communication, 2022 Previous research on Cantonese-English contact in Hong Kong has focused on lexical phenomena, primarily lexical borrowing and intra-sentential, single-word code-switching (or code-mixing).
Brian Hok-Shing Chan
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Towards a constructional approach to discourse-level phenomena : the case of the Spanish interpersonal epistemic stance construction [PDF]
, 2018 This study contributes to a better understanding of how constructional models can be applied to discourse-level phenomena, and constitute a valuable complementation to previous grammaticalization accounts of pragmatic markers.
Enghels, Renata
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Semantic and pragmatic motivations for constructional preferences: a corpus-based study of provide, supply, and present [PDF]
, 2011 A select group of transfer verbs can enter into four different constructions: the ditransitive construction (He provided John the money), the prepositional-dative construction (He provided the money to John), a construction with a prepositional theme (He
De Clerck, Bernard +2 more
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Les phrases préfabriquées exprimant la surprise : vers l’élaboration de schémas sémantico-syntaxiques et pragma-sémantiques rendant compte des régularités [PDF]
Studii de Lingvistica, 2023 This article discusses the modelling of prefabricated expressions of interactions, these ready-made sentences such as tu rigoles? ‘you’re kidding?’ or c’est fou! ‘it’s amazing!’ used in language interactions.
Agnès Tutin, Francis Grossmann
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Ditransitive verbs and the ditransitive construction: a diachronic perspective [PDF]
, 2011 This paper argues for the adoption of a construction-based perspective to the investigation of diachronic shifts in valency, which is a hitherto largely neglected topic in the framework of valency grammar. On the basis of a comparison of the set of verbs
Colleman, Timothy
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Toward a Cognitive Classical Linguistics. The Embodied Basis of Constructions in Greek and Latin [PDF]
, 2019 The volume that gathers a series of papers bringing together the study of grammatical and syntactic constructions in Greek and Latin under the perspective of theories of embodied meaning developed in cognitive ...
Mocciaro, Egle +1 more
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A constructional study of the compounds of body part “Sar” (head) in Persian [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2020 This paper aims to examine the construction of the word-formation pattern [sar-X] (compounds of the body part “head”) in Persian and investigate its semantic variations, the most general schema and subschemas both synchronically and diachronically ...
Ava Imani, Adel Rafiei
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Figurative Meaning Construction: From Cognitive Operations to Thought and Culture
Open Linguistics, 2016 This paper examines the construction of figurative language within the approach to metaphoric complexes provided by the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM).
Reda Ghsoon
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