Modal particles and sentence type restrictions: A construction grammar perspective

Embodied Construction Grammar As Layered Modal Languages

Multi-Modal Type-Logical Grammar∗

Our focus in this chapter is on grammatical composition, the relation that holds (relative to a formal or cognitive system of grammatical analysis G) between the global properties associated with a linguistic entity and the correlative properties associated with its component parts. We first discuss why grammatical composition in this sense raises questions that deserve particular attention. We...

A Cognitive Model of Sentence Interpretation: the Construction Grammar approach

This paper describes a new, psychologically-plausible model of human sentence interpretation, based on a new model of linguistic structure, Construction Grammar. This on-line, parallel, probabilistic interpreter accounts for a wide variety of psycholinguistic results on lexical access, idiom processing, parsing preferences, and studies of gap-filling and other valence ambiguities, including var...

Type grammar meets Japanese particles

This paper presents a computational analysis within the framework of a type grammar for the treatment of Japanese particles. In Japanese, particles express a number of functional relations; they follow a word to indicate its relationship to other words in a sentence, and/or give that word a particular meaning. We explain our parsing technique and discuss about various constructions using case p...

Incorporating Punctuation Into the Sentence Grammar: A Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar Perspective

Punctuation helps us to structure, and thus to understand, texts. Many uses of punctuation straddle the line between syntax and discourse, because they serve to combine multiple propositions within a single orthographic sentence. They allow us to insert discourse-level relations at the level of a single sentence. Just as people make use of information from punctuation in processing what they re...