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...

The constructionist approach to language has long proven its merits as a theoretical framework guiding linguistic observations. However, relatively little work has been dedicated to providing a precise, formalized definition of constructions and the mechanisms by means of which they are acquired. In giving an overview of recent work in Data-Oriented Parsing (DOP), we show how the theoretical de...

The Lucia comprehension system attempts to model human comprehension by using the Soar cognitive architecture, Embodied Construction Grammar (ECG), and an incremental, word-by-word approach to grounded processing. Traditional approaches use techniques such as parallel paths and global optimization to resolve ambiguities. Here we describe how Lucia deals with lexical, grammatical, structural, an...

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...

The goal of this paper is to present, by means of the detailed analysis of a single grammatical problem, some of the principal commitments and mechanisms of a grammatical theory which assigns a central role to the notion of GRAMMATICAL CONSTRUCTION. To adopt a constructional approach is to undertake a commitment in principle to account for the entirety of each language. This means that the rela...

this paper evaluates pedagogical grammar in the coursebooks of teaching persian non-iranian language learners. the study is based on communicative approach and pedagogical grammar. to evaluate the contents of those books, several checklists and grading scales were investigated and finally, an integrated checklist consisted of 20 questions was provided to be used in this study. in providing this...

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...

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...

While a great effort has concerned the development of fully integrated modular understanding systems, few researches have focused on the problem of unifying existing linguistic formalisms with cognitive processing models. The Situated Constructional Interpretation Model is one of these attempts. In this model, the notion of “construction” has been adapted in order to be able to mimic the behavi...