This Element discusses null instantiation (NI) in linguistics, highlighting how unexpressed arguments can receive anaphoric or existential interpretation. It argues that NI potential is influenced by both lexical and constructional factors, not just...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009663823)
This Element discusses null instantiation (NI) in linguistics, highlighting how unexpressed arguments can receive anaphoric or existential interpretation. It argues that NI potential is influenced by both lexical and constructional factors, not just...Lasīt vairāk
This Element offers a primer for the study of meaning in a Construction Grammar approach. It details the characteristics of a complex interface of semantic, pragmatic, and social meaning. It also considers ways in which this framework can be used fo...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-May-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009499637)
This Element offers a primer for the study of meaning in a Construction Grammar approach. It details the characteristics of a complex interface of semantic, pragmatic, and social meaning. It also considers ways in which this framework can be used fo...Lasīt vairāk
How do we understand any sentence, from the most ordinary to the most creative? The traditional assumption is that we rely on formal rules combining words (compositionality). However, psycho- and neuro-linguistic studies point to a linguistic represe...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Jan-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009517393)
This Element discusses compositionality, alternative mechanisms in language processing, and Construction Grammars suitability for formalizing language comprehension. It shows interpretation alternates between compositional and noncompositional strat...Lasīt vairāk
Tiago Timponi Torrent, Thomas Hoffmann, Arthur Lorenzi Almeida, Mark Turner
Sērija : Elements in Construction Grammar
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Feb-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009475907)
AI can assist the linguist in doing research on the structure of language. This Element illustrates this possibility by showing how a conversational AI based on a Large Language Model can assist the Construction Grammarian, and especially the Frame S...Lasīt vairāk
AI can assist the linguist in doing research on the structure of language. This Element illustrates this possibility by showing how a conversational AI based on a Large Language Model can assist the Construction Grammarian, and especially the Frame S...Lasīt vairāk
Construction Grammar has gained prominence in linguistics. This Element serves as a cautionary note against complacency and dogmatism. It emphasizes the enduring importance of falsifiability as a criterion for scientific hypotheses and theories--...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Feb-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009478786)
Construction Grammar has gained prominence in linguistics, owing its popularity to its inclusive approach that considers language units of varying sizes and generality as potential constructions mentally stored form-function units. This Element ser...Lasīt vairāk
Construction Grammar (CxG) has developed into a broad and highly diverse family of approaches that have in common that they see constructions, i.e. form-meaning pairs at various levels of abstraction and complexity, as the basic units of language. Th...Lasīt vairāk
It is one of the central claims of construction grammar that constructions are organized in some kind of network, commonly referred to as the constructicon. In the classical model of construction grammar, developed by Berkeley linguists in the 1990s,...Lasīt vairāk
