An important but under-appreciated aspect of grammar is the extent of the integration a grammatical construction specifies among its constitutive elements. Besides its vital role in synchronic grammar, this essential aspect of constructional meaning is a pivotal factor in grammaticization. These points will be illustrated through a variety of construction types drawn from a number of diverse la...

Teaching grammar online is an increasingly necessary practice, but the process is resource-heavy, requiring online tools such as grammar videos. Studies show that current online grammar modules have mixed effectiveness, and none of the studies have examined the effects of the design of these modules. This study investigated whether an online module, designed according to basic multi-media desig...

This paper proposes a modification of HPSG theory – Sign-Based Construction Grammar – that incorporates a strong theory of both selectional and constructional locality. A number of empirical phenomena that give the appearance of requiring nonlocal constraints are given a principled, localist analysis consistent with this general approach, which incorporates certain insights from work in the tra...

We propose an unfolding semantics for graph transformation systems in the double-pushout (DPO) approach. Mimicking Winskel’s construction for Petri nets, a graph grammar is unfolded into an acyclic branching structure, that is itself a (nondeterministic occurrence) graph grammar describing all the possible computations of the original grammar. The unfolding can be abstracted naturally to a prim...

This paper examines the relationship between modeling human sentence comprehension using cognitive architectures and approaches to linguistic knowledge representation using construction grammars. We review multiple computational models of language understanding that vary in their use of construction grammar and cognitive architectures. We present a case study: Lucia, that uses Embodied Construc...

Let S be a complete star-omega semiring and Σ be an alphabet. For a weighted ω-pushdown automaton P with stateset {1, . . . ,n}, n ≥ 1, we show that there exists a mixed algebraic system over a complete semiring-semimodule pair ((S≪ Σ ≫),(S≪ Σ ≫)) such that the behavior ‖P‖ of P is a component of a solution of this system. In case the basic semiring is B or N we show that there exists a mixed c...

The English cognate object (CO) construction like laugh a nervous laugh raises intriguing analytic and empirical questions. They include (a) what kind of verb licenses the CO, (b) what is the grammatical status of the CO (including its argumenthood), and (c) what are the semantic/pragmatic contributions of the construction? In answering these questions and to see real usages of the construction...

The sentences spoken by the actors in dialogue contained film “the Professor and Madman” consist of a variety structures that form grammatical construction, so can be understood run well smoothly. In context Charles J. Fillmore’s case grammar, various construction sentence are called modality proposition. line with background, purposes research are: (1) to reveal based on perspective Fillmore; ...

This response to Azar (this volume) intends to discuss from an academic's perspective the main points raised in her paper (i.e., grammar-based instruction and its relation to focus on form and error correction) and, to encourage a more concept-based approach to grammar instruction (CBT). A CBT approach to language development argues that the conceptual nature of grammatical forms is best expres...

Let S be a complete star-omega semiring and Σ be an alphabet. For a weighted ω-pushdown automaton P with stateset {1, . . . ,n}, n ≥ 1, we show that there exists a mixed algebraic system over a complete semiring-semimodule pair ((S≪ Σ ≫),(S≪ Σ ≫)) such that the behavior ‖P‖ of P is a component of a solution of this system. In case the basic semiring is B or N we show that there exists a mixed c...