Construction-based approaches to grammar are driven by the insight that meaning plays a crucial role in answering this question: the meanings of both words and grammatical structures can affect grammaticality, and they should therefore be incorporated into grammatical representations. To wit, the various approaches presented in this volume take this tack in predicting the grammaticality of utte...

The construction grammar framework provides a rich formalism for the characterization of development in language acquisition, in part because it allows for a graceful transition from idiom-like holophrases, to fully abstract argument constructions. From the perspective of learning complexity, this means that rather than mastering the grammar used by an adult to generate or understand an utteran...

This paper presents implementations of generative management method for morphological variation of query keywords. The method is called FCG, Frequent Case Generation. It is based on the skewed distributions of word forms in natural languages and is suitable for languages that either have fair amount of morphological variation or are morphologically very rich. The paper reports implementation an...

This paper presents a semi-automatic approach to acquire a computational construction grammar from the semi-formal Swedish Constructicon. The implementation is based on the resource grammar library provided by Grammatical Framework and can be seen as an extension to the existing Swedish resource grammar. An important consequence of this work is that it generates feedback, explicit and implicit,...

The paper describes a system that can automatically generate tree adjoining grammars from abstract specifications. Our system is based on the use of tree descriptions to specify a grammar by separately defining pieces of tree structure that encode independent syntactic principles. Various individual specifications are then combined to form the elementary trees of the grammar. The system enables...

Introduction: We examine event-related potential (ERP) responses during comprehension of the Causative construction. Event-related potentials are brain-responses that are directly-correlated to cognitive or sensory event. Both the P600 and N400 are ERPs that respectively correlate to syntactic and semantic anomalies when participants are processing presented sentences. A construction is a mappi...