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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Construction Grammar"”.
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A Radical Construction Grammar Analysis of Antipassive Constructions
… on the definition and typology of antipassive constructions and their morphology (Foley & Van Valin 1984:168-181, Givón 1994, Dixon & Aikhenvald 1997, Brus 1992, Cooreman 1994, Janic 2013), but none of these studies have looked at antipassives from a purely functional perspective. This study …
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A construction grammar approach to spatial prepositions in modern standard Arabic
The study adopts a construction grammar approach to examining the meaning of spatialprepositions in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), critically examines traditional accounts ofthe semantic character and syntactic role of MSA prepositions and posits an alternativeapproach based on construction grammar …
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Designing Service-Oriented Chatbot Systems Using a Construction Grammar-Driven Natural Language Generation System
… research area and place particular emphasis on Construction Grammar and its computational implementation. Our research shows that users have strong emotive reactions to how these systems behave, so we also investigate the human computer interaction component. We present three systems (KIA, John …
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The evolution of constructions: The case of be about to
I examine the evolution of constructions involved in the emergence of be about to, used to indicate an immediate future event. Using three corpora from different time periods going as far back as the Old English period, I take synchronic snapshots of the gradual change in constructions leading up …
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The Representation and Processing of Argument Structure Constructions
… word by is an integral part of the passive construction. These results of the three experiments suggest that theories of linguistic representation that allow for intermediate generalizations, such as Construction Grammar, are better suited to provide the representational vocabulary for the …
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Aspekte des Dativs : Zur Relation zwischen der Dativ-DP und der Ereignisstruktur der Verben in ditransitiven Konstruktionen im Deutschen
… the semantics of the dative-DP in ditransitive constructions in German from a cognitive and construction grammar perspective.While the indirect object in constructions with prototypical ditransitive verbs is said to be a lexically selected argument of the verb, the indirect object in beneficiary …
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A cognitive-linguistic study of the causative, agent-deprofiling, and resultative constructions: system internal and external perspectives
… within the framework of the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM), as initially formulated in Ruiz de Mendoza & Mairal (2008, 2011), Mairal & Ruiz de Mendoza (2008, 2009). This thesis develops central aspects of this model at the argument-structure level in a way that is consistent with …
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The Development of Czech Aspectual Prefixes Through Grammaticalization and Lexicalization Processes
… of aspectual prefixes in the framework of construction grammar. It draws from a central notion that grammar emerges from discourse and argues that the development of aspectual prefixes in Czech was fundamentally based in language use and processing. The synchronic layering of prefixed …
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Investigating focus constructions in an EFL context : a usage-based approach
By adopting a Construction Grammar framework and following a usage-based approach to SLA, the present study investigated Saudi advanced L2 users’ knowledge of focus constructions in English (namely it-cleft, wh-cleft, reverse wh-cleft and preposing). Little is known about the acquisition of these …
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A corpus-based examination of English if-conditionals through the lens of modality : nature and types
… and a number of non-conditional bi-partite constructions. The examination also compares the modal load in different types of if-conditionals, and their two parts (protasis and apodosis), and motivates the development of a typology of ifconditionals. Finally, the study examines the modal …
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Illustrating the prototype structures of parts of speech: A multidimensional scaling analysis
Radical Construction Grammar (Croft 2001) proposes that parts of speech can be explained as prototypes that emerge from the use of broad semantic classes of words--objects, properties, and actions--in basic propositional act functions of discourse--reference, modification, and predication. This …
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Such a Construction! Evidence for an Exclamatory Evaluative Construction with Pivotal such
In Construction Grammar, form-meaning pairs called 'constructions' are regarded as the basic units of language. This applies not only to words and word meanings but also to grammatical structures and especially to idioms. Lexicon and syntax are not considered separate domains of language. The …
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Usage-based Analysis of Schematic and Multifunctional Verb Argument Constructions in Three Contrasting Corpora: A Native Chinese Corpus, a CFL Textbook Corpus and a Chinese Learner Corpus
… body of evidence that supports the usage-based construction grammar approach to language learning. This approach suggests that language development is strongly influenced by statistical regularities in learners’ input, including the frequency, dispersion, and contingency of linguistic items. …
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CALaMo: a Construsctionist perspective on the Analysis of linguistic behaviour of Language Models
… extent to which such networks can actually learn grammar remains an object of investigation, and experimental results are often inconclusive. Notably, the mainstream evaluation framework in which NLMs are tested seems largely based on Generative Grammar and nativist principles, and a shared …