Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-272-0433-2
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 785 g

Reihe: Constructional Approaches to Language

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Steels, Luc

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Luc Steels

vii – xii
Part I. Introduction

Introducing Fluid Construction Grammar
Luc Steels

3 – 30
A first encounter with Fluid Construction Grammar
Luc Steels

31 – 68
Part II. Grammatical structures

A design pattern for phrasal constructions
Luc Steels

71
A design pattern for argument structure constructions
Remi van Trijp

115 – 146
Part III. Managing processing

Search in linguistic processing
Joris Bleys, Kevin Stadler and Joachim De Beule

149 – 180
Organizing constructions in networks
Pieter Wellens

181 – 202
Part IV. Case studies

Feature matrices and agreement: A case study for German case
Remi van Trijp

205 – 236
Construction sets and unmarked forms: A case study for Hungarian verbal agreement
Katrien Beuls

237 – 264
Syntactic indeterminacy and semantic ambiguity: A case study for German spatial phrases
Michael Spranger and Martin Loetzsch

265 – 298
Part V. Fluidity and robustness

How to make construction grammars fluid and robust
Luc Steels and Remi van Trijp

301 – 330