Introducing Fluid Construction Grammar
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Luc Steels
Abstract
Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG) is a formalism for defining the inventory of lexical and grammatical conventions that language processing requires and the operations with which this inventory is used to parse and produce sentences. This chapter introduces some of the key ideas and basic design principles behind the development of Fluid Construction Grammar.
Abstract
Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG) is a formalism for defining the inventory of lexical and grammatical conventions that language processing requires and the operations with which this inventory is used to parse and produce sentences. This chapter introduces some of the key ideas and basic design principles behind the development of Fluid Construction Grammar.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword vii
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Part I. Introduction
- Introducing Fluid Construction Grammar 3
- A first encounter with Fluid Construction Grammar 31
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Part II. Grammatical structures
- A design pattern for phrasal constructions 71
- A design pattern for argument structure constructions 115
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Part III. Managing processing
- Search in linguistic processing 149
- Organizing constructions in networks 181
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Part IV. Case studies
- Feature matrices and agreement 205
- Construction sets and unmarked forms 237
- Syntactic indeterminacy and semantic ambiguity 265
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Part V. Fluidity and robustness
- How to make construction grammars fluid and robust 301
- Index 331
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword vii
-
Part I. Introduction
- Introducing Fluid Construction Grammar 3
- A first encounter with Fluid Construction Grammar 31
-
Part II. Grammatical structures
- A design pattern for phrasal constructions 71
- A design pattern for argument structure constructions 115
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Part III. Managing processing
- Search in linguistic processing 149
- Organizing constructions in networks 181
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Part IV. Case studies
- Feature matrices and agreement 205
- Construction sets and unmarked forms 237
- Syntactic indeterminacy and semantic ambiguity 265
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Part V. Fluidity and robustness
- How to make construction grammars fluid and robust 301
- Index 331