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A reference constructicon as a database

  • Malin Patel , Armine Garibyan , Elodie Winckel and Stephanie Evert EMAIL logo
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Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association
From the journal Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association Volume 11 Issue 1

Abstract

This article explores the importance of database architecture in building a reference constructicon. Several reference constructicons have been implemented for various languages (FrameNet Constructicon, English Constructicon, Japanese FrameNet Constructicon, German Constructicon, Swedish Constructicon, FrameNet Brasil Constructicon, Russian Constructicon). However, most constructicon projects do not provide explicit information about their implementation or the underlying data model. A recent reference constructicon project dealing mainly with the English language is CASA (Construction Grammar Approach to Syntactic Analysis). In this paper, we present the data model underlying CASA in detail and its current implementation as a relational database and web interface. Relational databases are widely used for many different applications and allow large amounts of data to be stored and managed in a structured and efficient way.

Keywords: constructicon; database; Construction Grammar; constructicography; implementation

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Published Online: 2024-02-19
Published in Print: 2023-12-15

©2023 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

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  5. Lexical knowledge, memory and experience
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https://doi.org/10.1515/gcla-2023-0009
Keywords for this article
constructicon; database; Construction Grammar; constructicography; implementation

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Editorial: Constructions under construction: Items, patterns, grammar
  3. Constructicon in progress
  4. Multi-Dimensional Regularity Analysis: How the Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization Model can be applied to corpus data
  5. Lexical knowledge, memory and experience
  6. Nominal constructions in spoken academic Englishes: A quantitative corpus-based approach
  7. Causative constructions in process: How do they come into existence in learner writing?
  8. “I’m gonna get totally and utterly X-ed.” Constructing drunkenness
  9. The German geschweige denn construction
  10. A reference constructicon as a database
  11. Dimensions of constructional meanings in the German Constructicon: Why collo-profiles matter
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