Over the past thirty years, Construction Grammar approaches (see e.g. Croft 2001; Goldberg 2006; Hoffmann & Trousdale 2013) have received substantial support from psychoand neurolinguistics as well as from research on L1 (Diessel 2013) and L2 (Ellis 2013) acquisition. It is therefore not surprising that recently a considerable number of studies on World English varieties have emerged that adopt...

English verbal gerunds have long been of interest to syntacticians. Verbal gerund phrases display a mix of nominal and verbal properties which provide a challenge to any syntactic framework that assumes a strict version of X-bar theory. Various approaches have been proposed to get around these problems, but they all involve abandoning a fundamentally desirable theoretic assumption or adopting a...

This paper illustrates the use of ‘feature matrices’, a technique for handling ambiguity and feature indeterminacy in feature structure grammars using unification as the single mechanism for processing. Both phenomena involve forms that can be mapped onto multiple, often conflicting values. This paper illustrates their respective challenges through German case agreement, which has become the li...

Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG) is a new linguistic formalism designed to explore in how far a construction grammar approach can be used for handling open-ended grounded dialogue, i.e. dialogue between or with autonomous embodied agents about the world as experienced through their sensory-motor apparatus. We seek scalable, open-ended language systems by giving agents both the ability to use ex...

This paper aims to analyze, in a multimodal perspective, advertisements order understand the contributions of Grammar Visual Design for construction skills and formation critical reflexive reader writer at school. For this, this study is mainly based on postulations ofHalliday Matthiessen (2004) Kress van Leeuwen (2006[1996]). In context, work presents itself qualitative exploratory character b...

Parsing is an important step for natural language understanding, including phrase alignment for supporting statistical machine translation. Ability on analysing real text by parser strongly depends on grammar. Treebank could be one of the sources for grammar extraction. However, treebank construction largely relies on human annotators intuitions. Different intuitions from multiple annotators br...

only two voices have been represented in italian grammar. if we look at the passive constructions from a pragmatic point of view, it can be seen as a language strategy being classified as an event. this change of perspective creates different structures. in this article we shall study a speaker’s change of perspective in attention to the valence theory. according to this theory, a verb on the b...

Combinatory Categorial Grammar is a lexicalised formalism which is mildly context-sensitive. Recently Set Combinatory Categorial Grammar, a direct descendent of Combinatory Categorial Grammar was proposed to treat local scrambling adequately. In this paper, we briefly sketch Set Combinatory Categorial Grammar analyses of various Korean syntactic phenomena including coordination, extraction and ...