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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 16:27:46
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Case Studies in Fluid Construction Grammar: Steels, Beuls (eds.)

 


Title: Case Studies in Fluid Construction Grammar 
Subtitle: The verb phrase 
Series Title: Benjamins Current Topics 106  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/bct.106 


Editor: Luc Steels
Editor: Katrien Beuls

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261892 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 128.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261892 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 71.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261892 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 85.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204462 Pages: 150 Price: U.S. $ 128.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204462 Pages: 150 Price: U.K. £ 71.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204462 Pages: 150 Price: Europe EURO 90.10


Abstract:

Construction grammar enjoys great popularity among empirical linguists,
typologists, psycholinguists, and language educators, because it puts meaning
and function of language at the forefront of linguistic analysis. This book
shows that construction grammar gives us also a powerful new way to conceive
and implement operational parsing and production systems, which could be used
as a basic component of a wide range of Artificial Intelligence applications,
such as dialog systems, language tutoring applications, or translation
assistants. The book focuses on a particular formalism, Fluid Construction
Grammar (FCG), that has emerged recently as a solid platform for writing and
testing grammars from a constructional point of view. It introduces the basics
of FCG and illustrates its use through a number of case studies all centering
around the verb phrase. The case studies consider the verb phrase in different
languages (Dutch, English, Spanish, Russian) and examine different challenging
linguistic phenomena, ranging from word order flexibility, language change,
and language acquisition, to the complex semantics of the verb phrase,
particularly for aspect. The book is intended for those who want a first
contact with FCG and see how different non-trivial analyses of language
phenomena can be expressed. It is also an excellent first step for those who
want to explore FCG to build language applications. 

Originally published as special issue of "Constructions and Frames" 9:2
(2017).
 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories


Written In: English  (eng)

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