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...

A formal architecture for Construction Grammar (CG) is sketched. Modeling domain objects (constructs) are constituent structures with feature structures at the nodes, aka Feature Structure Trees (FTs). Constructions are partial descriptions of FTs, expressed as sets of constituent structure equations and path equations. Uni-cation of constructions is deened. A construct c is licensed by a gramm...

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) applications often employ a mixture of static and dynamic grammar components, and can thus benefit from the ability to efficiently modify the system vocabulary and other parameters in an on-line mode. This paper presents a novel, generic approach to dynamic grammar handling in the context of the Weighted Finite-State Transducer (WFST) paradigm. The method reli...

Abstract The term grammaticalization originally denoted a particular outcome of language change (lexis > morphology), then got expanded to practically all studies involving change, the processes that create such changes, and theory modeling these. These expansions have been challenged in literature as conceptually flawed. A usage-based analysis evolution concept culminates use “flag” approac...