Steffen Höder is a Full Professor of Scandinavian Linguistics at the Institute Studies, Frisian Studies and General Kiel University . He has PhD from Hamburg (Scandinavian Studies) his main research interest regards Language contact, Areal linguistics, change variation, Construction Grammar. author several articles in international peer-reviewed journals some current researches are about Diasys...

This paper explores the notion of lexicon embedded syntax: syntactic structures that are preassembled in natural language lexicons. Section 1 proposes a lexicological perspective on (dependency) syntax: first, it deals with the well-known problem of lexicon-grammar dichotomy, then introduces the notion of lexicon embedded syntax and, finally, presents the lexical models this discussion is based...

Grammatical Framework (GF) is a grammar formalism which supports interlinguabased translation, library-based grammar engineering, and compilation to speech recognition grammars. We show how these features can be used in the construction of portable high-precision domain-specific speech translators.

This  case  study  analyzes  how  a  Taiwanese  EFL  teacher  participating  in  a  U.S.  based MATESOL program made sense of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and genre based pedagogy  in  designing  and  reflecting  on  literacy  instruction  for  EFL  learners  in  Taiwan. Using  longitudinal  ethnographic  methods,  the  findings  indicate  that  this  teacher’s conceptualization  of  g...

Implementing dependency grammar as a set of defeasible declarative rules has fundamental advantages such as expressiveness, automatic disambiguation, and robustness. Although an implementation and a successful large-scale grammar of German are available, so far the construction of constraint dependency grammars has not been described at length. We report on techniques that were used to write th...

Abstract This paper sketches a grammar of English relative clause constructions (including infinitival and reduced relatives) based on the notions of construction type and type constraints. Generalizations about dependency relations and clausal functions are factored into distinct dimensions contributing constraints to specific construction types in a multiple inheritance type hierarchy. The gr...

Categorial grammar has traditionally used the λ-calculus to represent meaning. We present an alternative, dependency-based perspective on linguistic meaning and situate it in the computational setting. This perspective is formalized in terms of hybrid logic and has a rich yet perspicuous propositional ontology that enables a wide variety of semantic phenomena to be represented in a single meani...

This proof of concept study examines the possibility of specifying the construction of programs using Differential Evolution, and represents a new form of grammar-based genetic programming, Grammatical Differential Evolution (GDE). In GDE each individual member of the population represents a specific choice of program construction rules, where these rules are specified using a Backus-Naur Form ...