scholarly journals On the place of turn and sequence in grammar

Pragmatics ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 507-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan K. Lindström
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Surface Pattern ◽  
Syntactic Analysis ◽  
Sequential Organization ◽  
Attribute Value

This study elaborates the concept of a positionally sensitive grammar with respect to the sequentiality of turns and the turn constructional units in conversation. The linguistic object of the analysis is clausal constructions in Swedish that are initiated by the finite predicate verb: Polar questions, receipt questions (news receipts), conditional protases and pro-drop declaratives. These constructions share potentially the same syntactic surface pattern but are constrained by different sequential conditions of use. The study proposes an integrated interactional linguistic analysis which takes into account both syntactic and sequential aspects of turn construction. A grammatical attribute-value matrix, based on the framework of construction grammar (CxG), is introduced. The analysis shows that regularities of sequential organization may provide robust distinctive constructional features while a pure syntactic analysis remains less distinctive. The decisive constructional features are systematically captured by a notation designed for sequential and syntactic organization.

scholarly journals KONSTRUKSI SINTAKSIS KAIFIATUL IKHBAR DALAM AKAD IJAB KABUL PERNIKAHAN

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Muhammad Muchlish Huda ◽  
Samsul Arifin ◽  
Miftakhul Ma’arif
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Syntactic Analysis ◽  
Sentence Structure ◽  
Legal Requirement ◽  
Marriage Contract

In the context of composing Arabic sentences, the rules of kaifiatul ikhbar are included in the rules which are basic and foundation. The kaifiatul ikhbar rules are formed from the composition of the mubtada and khobar and are used in various forms of sentences, including the sentence structure of the marriage consent. Accuracy in pronouncing the kabul marriage license sentence including the arrangement of the preacher and khobar becomes important considering this kabul consent will be a legal requirement or cancellation of a marriage contract. This study attempts to analyze and present several forms of kabul mariage agreement and syntactic analysis, especially in the kaida of kaifiatul ikhbar. By using a library approach and linguistic analysis from its syntactic aspects, the results of this study indicate that there are 11 forms of kaifiyatul ikhbar with various syntactic analysis specifications. This shows that the form of kaifiatul ikhbar in the marriage contract is actually not only one forms, but with a variety of sentence forms

A construction grammar analysis of the transitivebeperfect in present-day Canadian English

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
YURI YERASTOV
Keyword(s):  
Argument Structure ◽  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Syntactic Analysis ◽  
Underlying Structure ◽  
Canadian English ◽  
Syntactic Theory ◽  
Fixed Material ◽  
Grammar Analysis ◽  
Generative Approach ◽  
Surface Realization

This article offers a syntactic analysis of the construction [be doneNP], e.g.I am done dinner, I am finished my homework, as found in Canadian English and some US dialects. After situating this construction in the context of a productive transitivebeperfect in Scots/English dialects, [be doneNP] will be distinguished from a set of its conceptual and structural relatives, and ultimately be shown not to be reducible to a surface realization of another underlying structure. From the perspective of syntactic theory, the article problematizes the parsimony of the mainstream generative approach (most recently in MacFadden & Alexiadou 2010) in accounting for the facts of [be doneNP] on strictly compositional grounds, as well as the mainstream view of lexical items as projecting theta grids and subcategorization frames (as e.g. in Grimshaw 1979; Emonds 2000). Following Fillmoreet al.(1988), Goldberg (1995, 2005) and others, what will be suggested instead is a construction grammar approach to [be doneNP], under which a construction holistically licenses its argument structure. Along these lines [be doneNP] will be characterized as an abstract construction with some fixed material.

Why Construction Grammar is radical

2004 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 321-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Traditional View ◽  
Compelling Evidence ◽  
Radical Construction

This article reviews some of the foundational assumptions of Croft'sRadical Construction Grammar. While constructions have featured prominently in much recent work in cognitive linguistics, Croft adopts the ‘radical’ view that constructions are the primary objects of linguistic analysis, with lexical and syntactic categories being defined with respect to the constructions in which they occur. This approach reverses the traditional view, according to which complex expressions are compositionally assembled through syntactic rules operating over items selected from the lexicon. The ubiquity of idioms, especially so-called constructional idioms, provides compelling evidence for the essential correctness of the radical constructional view. The possibility of a radical constructional approach to phonology is also discussed.

Theoretical and computational considerations of linking constructions in Role and Reference Grammar

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 410-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Nolan
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Construction Grammar ◽  
The Body ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Lexical Information ◽  
Role And Reference Grammar ◽  
Reference Grammar

This paper proposes a view of the linguistic construction in Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) in which constructions are posited to be structured grammatical objects with a unique constructional signature that uniquely identifies them. We argue that the construction has an input and an output, and that it contains a local workspace in which the processing of the various lexical and grammatical rules applies, according to the constraints within the constructional object. In recent years there has been a growing recognition that the RRG account of constructions is an under-utilised resource that deserves a wider application to problems in cross-linguistic analysis (Nolan & Diedrichsen, 2013; Nolan & Periñán, 2014). As a functional grammar with strong claims of adequacy, RRG has however had several challenges from Construction Grammar (Butler & Martín Arista, 2009; Goldberg, 2006; Michaelis, 2006, 2010). This paper addresses a number of these challenges. In the view of constructions presented here, the linking over the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic interfaces resides in the body of the construction, and the construction interacts with the lexicon which provides lexical information relevant to the construction. The constructions reside in a construction repository. This model of constructions delivers a means to address the challenges posed to the RRG account of the role and place of constructions within a lexicalist functionalist model of grammar.

Constructions are catenae: Construction Grammar meets Dependency Grammar

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Osborne, ◽  
Thomas Gross,
Keyword(s):  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Dependency Grammar ◽  
Strong Position ◽  
A Chain ◽  
Attribute Value

AbstractThe paper demonstrates that dependency-based syntax is in a strong position to produce principled and economical accounts of the syntax of constructs. The difficulty that constituency-based syntax has in this regard is that very many constructs fail to qualify as constituents. The point is evident with the box diagrams and attribute value matrices (AVMs) that some construction grammars (CxGs) use to formalize constructions; these schemata often represent fragments rather than constituents. In dependency-based syntax in contrast, constructions are catenae, whereby a catena is a chain of words linked together by dependencies. The catena is a novel but well-defined unit of syntax associated with dependency grammar (DG). The constructs of CxGs are more amenable to analyses in terms of the catenae of dependency-based syntax than to analyses in terms of the constituents of constituency-based syntax.

A study of the development of the Chinese correlative comparative construction from the perspective of constructionalization

Diachronica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-126
Author(s):  
Fangqiong Zhan ◽  
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Construction Grammar ◽  
The Other ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Incremental Construction ◽  
Comparative Construction

Abstract The paper addresses the emergence and development of the Chinese correlative comparative construction (CrCC) from the perspective of constructionalization. Most previous historical studies of the CrCC take a grammaticalization approach (e.g., Long 2013), focusing mainly on morphosyntax alone rather than investigating syntax and semantics in an integrated way. However, the architecture of construction grammar requires approaching linguistic analysis with both form and meaning equally in mind. This approach suggests that what have sometimes been considered to be merely different formal expressions of the CrCC are in fact two different constructions, one correlative, and the other a simple incremental. We identify the critical contexts (see Diewald & Smirnova 2010) that by hypothesis enabled the constructionalization of the CrCC, and point to the importance of considering network reorganization and multiple sources in the development of the simple incremental construction (see e.g., Boas 2008; Van de Velde et al. 2013).

Construction Grammar for students: A Constructionist Approach to Syntactic Analysis (CASA)

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-218
Author(s):  
Thomas Herbst ◽  
Thomas Hoffmann
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Syntactic Analysis ◽  
Human Language ◽  
Scientific Model ◽  
Constructionist Approach ◽  
University Level ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Over the last 30 years, our insight into mental grammars has radically changed with usage-based constructionist approaches providing cognitively- and psychologically-plausible models of language processing and use. And yet, these models have had practically no impact on language teaching at school or university level. With our CASA (‘A Constructionist Approach to Syntactic Analysis’) project, we now want to address this issue. As outlined in the present paper, we propose a constructionist model for the analysis of complex, authentic utterances that will equip pupils, students and teachers with an up-to-date scientific model of human language.

Phrasal lexemes, compounds and phrases: A constructionist perspective

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 254-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Masini
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Basic Unit ◽  
Syntactic Structures ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Lexical Items

The paper addresses the issue of the syntax-lexicon distinction from a Construction Grammar perspective. In the constructionist framework, the construction is the basic unit of linguistic analysis and there is no clear-cut division between lexical items and syntactic structures. Under this view, phenomena which are intermediate between syntax and the lexicon are expected. Apart from well-known cases such as idioms and compounds, there can be found in various languages a number of multi-word expressions that are not fully syntactic objects. I refer to these units as phrasal lexemes. The paper shows that, although phrasal lexemes follow the syntactic patterns of the language, they clearly have a lexical, naming function and, furthermore, they are more restricted compared to canonical phrases. This is exemplified by two case studies from Italian, namely noun-preposition-noun combinations and verb-conjunction-verb combinations. Construction Grammar not only offers efficient tools for describing these expressions, but also allows to treat phrasal lexemes as distinct with respect to both words and canonical phrases, without abandoning any of these notions.

Entreviʃta com Ronald W. Langacker

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Diogo Pinheiro
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Linguistic Community ◽  
Cognitive Grammar ◽  
Grammar Model

<p>Over thirty years ago, the first volume of Ronald Langacker’s <em>Foundations of cognitive grammar</em> presented the linguistic community with a highly innovative and equally controversial framework for linguistic analysis. It took some time, however, for Cognitive Grammar to be perceived as a construction grammar model – maybe because “the word ‘construction’ rarely appears there” (Croft and Cruse 2004: 278), maybe because the semantic apparatus and heavy use of diagrams seemed so overwhelming at first that the construction grammar side of the framework faded into the background.</p><p>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p>Há mais de trinta anos, o primeiro volume de <em>Foundations of cognitive grammar</em> de Ronald Langacker apresentou à comunidade linguística uma estrutura altamente inovadora e igualmente controversa para a análise linguística. Demorou algum tempo, no entanto, para a Gramática Cognitiva ser vista como um modelo gramatical da construção - talvez porque “a palavra 'construção' raramente aparece lá” (Croft e Cruse 2004: 278), talvez porque o aparato semântico e o uso pesado de diagramas parecia tão avassalador a princípio que o lado da gramática da construção da estrutura desapareceu no fundo.</p><p>---</p><p>Origianl em inglês.</p>

Researching on Parsing

2013 ◽  
Vol 846-847 ◽  
pp. 1376-1379
Author(s):  
Li Fei Geng ◽  
Hong Lian Li
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Syntactic Analysis ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Technology ◽  
Context Free ◽  
Probabilistic Context ◽  
Context Free Grammars

Syntactic analysis is the core technology of natural language processing and it is the cornerstone for further linguistic analysis. This paper, first introduces the basic grammatical system and summary the technology of current parsing. Then analysis the characteristics of probabilistic context-free grammars deep and introduce the method of improving for probabilistic context-free. The last we point the difficulty of Chinese parsing.

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