Is our mental grammar just a set of constructions?: Commentary on Evans 2014

effect of oral presentation on development of l2 learners grammar

this experimental study has been conducted to test the effect of oral presentation on the development of l2 learners grammar. but this oral presentation is not merely a deductive instruction of grammatical points, in this presentation two hypotheses of krashen (input and low filter hypotheses), stevicks viewpoints on grammar explanation and correction and widdowsons opinion on limited use of l1...

On si constructions in Italian HPSG Grammar

Constructions in Word Grammar

In this paper we consider the relationship between Word Grammar (WG) and Construction Grammar (CG). We first of all argue that the two frameworks share all of their fundamental assumptions, naming specifically the following: a requirement to deal with ‘noncore’ as well as central patterns, rejection of the traditional division between rules and separate lexical items, declarative monostratal gr...

NL Understanding with a Grammar of Constructions

We present an approach to na tura l language unders tanding based on a computable grammar of const~ctions. A construetionconsists of a set of features of form and a description of meaning in a context. A grammar is a set of constructions. This kind of grammar is the key element of MINCAL, an implemented natural language speech-enabled interface to an online calendar system. Tile architecture ha...

Algebraic constructions on set partitions

The main contribution of this article is to provide a combinatorial Hopf algebra on set partitions, which can be seen as a Hopf subalgebra of the free quasi-symmetric functions, and which is free, cofree and self-dual. This algebraic construction comes naturally from a combinatorial algorithm, an analogous of the Robinson-Schensted correspondence on set partitions. This correspondence also give...