Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar
Editor
Luc Steels | ICREA, Institute for Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), Barcelona & Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris
Construction Grammar is enthusiastically embraced by a growing group of linguists who find it a natural way to formulate their analyses. But so far there is no widespread formalization of construction grammar with a solid computational implementation. Fluid Construction Grammar attempts to fill this gap. It is a fully operational computational framework capturing many key concepts in construction grammar. The present book is the first extensive publication describing this framework. In addition to general introductions, it gives a number of concrete examples through a series of linguistically challenging case studies, including phrase structure, case grammar, and modality. The book is suited both for linguists who want to know what Fluid Construction Grammar looks like and for computational linguists who may want to use this computational framework for their own experiments or applications.
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 11] 2011. xi, 332 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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ForewordLuc Steels | pp. vii–xii
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Part I. Introduction
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Introducing Fluid Construction GrammarLuc Steels | pp. 3–30
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A first encounter with Fluid Construction GrammarLuc Steels | pp. 31–68
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Part II. Grammatical structures
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A design pattern for phrasal constructionsLuc Steels | pp. 71–114
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A design pattern for argument structure constructionsRemi van Trijp | pp. 115–146
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Part III. Managing processing
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Search in linguistic processingJoris Bleys, Kevin Stadler and Joachim De Beule | pp. 149–180
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Organizing constructions in networksPieter Wellens | pp. 181–202
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Part IV. Case studies
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Feature matrices and agreement: A case study for German caseRemi van Trijp | pp. 205–236
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Construction sets and unmarked forms: A case study for Hungarian verbal agreementKatrien Beuls | pp. 237–264
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Syntactic indeterminacy and semantic ambiguity: A case study for German spatial phrasesMichael Spranger and Martin Loetzsch | pp. 265–298
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Part V. Fluidity and robustness
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How to make construction grammars fluid and robustLuc Steels and Remi van Trijp | pp. 301–330
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Index | pp. 331–332
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