Home Linguistics & Semiotics Organizing constructions in networks
Chapter
Licensed
Unlicensed Requires Authentication

Organizing constructions in networks

  • Pieter Wellens
View more publications by John Benjamins Publishing Company
Search
Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar
This chapter is in the book Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar

Abstract

Fluid Construction Grammar supports different ways to organize the inventory of constructions into networks. This is not just usable for descriptive purposes only. It plays an important role in streamlining the processes deciding which construction to consider first. Networks become increasingly more important as the complexity, multifunctionality, and size of a grammar grows. This chapter shows how networks of constructions are represented in FCG and how they are used to optimize language processing. Two examples are explored in more detail. The first example concerns family relations of specificity between constructions and the second one concerns conditional dependencies.

Abstract

Fluid Construction Grammar supports different ways to organize the inventory of constructions into networks. This is not just usable for descriptive purposes only. It plays an important role in streamlining the processes deciding which construction to consider first. Networks become increasingly more important as the complexity, multifunctionality, and size of a grammar grows. This chapter shows how networks of constructions are represented in FCG and how they are used to optimize language processing. Two examples are explored in more detail. The first example concerns family relations of specificity between constructions and the second one concerns conditional dependencies.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Foreword vii
  4. Part I. Introduction
  5. Introducing Fluid Construction Grammar 3
  6. A first encounter with Fluid Construction Grammar 31
  7. Part II. Grammatical structures
  8. A design pattern for phrasal constructions 71
  9. A design pattern for argument structure constructions 115
  10. Part III. Managing processing
  11. Search in linguistic processing 149
  12. Organizing constructions in networks 181
  13. Part IV. Case studies
  14. Feature matrices and agreement 205
  15. Construction sets and unmarked forms 237
  16. Syntactic indeterminacy and semantic ambiguity 265
  17. Part V. Fluidity and robustness
  18. How to make construction grammars fluid and robust 301
  19. Index 331
https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.11.10wel

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Foreword vii
  4. Part I. Introduction
  5. Introducing Fluid Construction Grammar 3
  6. A first encounter with Fluid Construction Grammar 31
  7. Part II. Grammatical structures
  8. A design pattern for phrasal constructions 71
  9. A design pattern for argument structure constructions 115
  10. Part III. Managing processing
  11. Search in linguistic processing 149
  12. Organizing constructions in networks 181
  13. Part IV. Case studies
  14. Feature matrices and agreement 205
  15. Construction sets and unmarked forms 237
  16. Syntactic indeterminacy and semantic ambiguity 265
  17. Part V. Fluidity and robustness
  18. How to make construction grammars fluid and robust 301
  19. Index 331
Sign up now to receive a 20% welcome discount
Institutional Access
How does access work?
Have an idea on how to improve our website?
Please write us.
© 2025 De Gruyter Brill
Downloaded on 26.9.2025 from https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1075/cal.11.10wel/html
Scroll to top button