In this paper, I offer a Radical Constructon Grammar analysis of some aspects of countability in English. Radical Construction Grammar (Croft 1999, 2000, 2001, MS) shares with other construction grammars the assumption that all grammatical knowledge can be represented uniformly as a network of constructions, where ‘construction’ is taken to describe form-meaning pairings of grammatical structur...

We adopt the corpus-informed approach to example sentence selections for the construction of a reference grammar. In the process, a database containing sentences that are carefully selected by linguistic experts including the full range of linguistic facts covered in an authoritative Chinese Reference Grammar is constructed and structured according to the reference grammar. A search engine syst...

We employ transformations for the adaptation of grammars. Grammars need to be adapted in grammar development, grammar maintenance , grammar reengineering, and grammar recovery. Starting from a few fundamental transformation primitives and combinators, we derive an operator suite for grammar adaptation. Three groups of operators are identiied, namely operators for refactoring, construction and d...

In Construction Grammar, rules of syntactic combination (descriptions of local trees, e.g., a verb phrase and its daughters) have meanings. These meanings are represented by syntactic, semantic and usage features that attach to the mother or daughter nodes in these trees (Sag 2007, 2008). A construction defines the distinctive properties of a mode of combination that is part of the grammar of a...

Role and Reference Grammar is a functional theory of language which allows an input text to be represented in terms of its logical structure. In order to go beyond the core grammar, the Lexical Constructional Model, which is grounded on the previous theoretical model, provides a fine-grained description of all aspects involved in meaning construction. This paper explores the integration of FunG...

Inducing a grammar from text has proven to be a notoriously challenging learning task despite decades of research. The primary reason for its difficulty is that in order to induce plausible grammars, the underlying model must be capable of representing the intricacies of language while also ensuring that it can be readily learned from data. The majority of existing work on grammar induction has...

This work presents the migration process of a syntactic grammar of Basque from one formalism to another. Due to differences in the formalisms and the kind of grammars, it is not possible to make a direct translation. As a consequence, the construction of a new grammar by a linguist must start almost from scratch. For this reason we devised an experiment in parallel with the manual construction ...

This paper discusses a novel approach for the construction of a context-free grammar based on a sequential processing of sentences. The construction of the grammar is based on a search algorithm for the minimum weight subgraph in an AND/OR graph. Aspects of optimality and robustness are discussed. The algorithm plays an essential role in a model for adaptive learning of probabilistic ordering. ...

Density functional theory is applied to ion-induced nucleation of dipolar molecules. The predicted reversible work shows a sign preference, resulting in a difference in the nucleation rate by a factor of 10–10, for realistic values of model parameters. The sign effect is found to decrease systematically as the supersaturation is increased. The asymmetry of a molecule is shown to be directly res...

We propose an approach to the construction of grammars for existing languages. The main characteristic of the approach is that the grammars are not constructed from scratch but they are rather recovered by extracting them from language references, compilers, and other artifacts. We provide a structured process to recover grammars including the adaptation of raw extracted grammars and the deriva...