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.
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Fluid Construction Grammar is a fully operational computational framework capturing many key concepts in construction grammar. This book describes this framework. It gives a number of examples through a series of linguistically challenging case studies, including phrase structure, case grammar, and modality.
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1. Foreword (by Steels, Luc); 2. Part I. Introduction; 3. Introducing Fluid Construction Grammar (by Steels, Luc); 4. A first encounter with Fluid Construction Grammar (by Steels, Luc); 5. Part II. Grammatical structures; 6. A design pattern for phrasal constructions (by Steels, Luc); 7. A design pattern for argument structure constructions (by Trijp, Remi van); 8. Part III. Managing processing; 9. Search in linguistic processing (by Bleys, Joris); 10. Organizing constructions in networks (by Wellens, Pieter); 11. Part IV. Case studies; 12. Feature matrices and agreement: A case study for German case (by Trijp, Remi van); 13. Construction sets and unmarked forms: A case study for Hungarian verbal agreement (by Beuls, Katrien); 14. Syntactic indeterminacy and semantic ambiguity: A case study for German spatial phrases (by Spranger, Michael); 15. Part V. Fluidity and robustness; 16. How to make construction grammars fluid and robust (by Steels, Luc); 17. Index
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Product details

ISBN
9789027204332
Published
2011-12-07
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Weight
785 gr
Height
245 mm
Width
164 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
344

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