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Cognition in construction grammar: connecting individual and community grammars University of Antwerp
This paper examines, on the basis of a longitudinal corpus of 50 early modern authors, how change at the aggregate level of the community interacts with variation and change at the microlevel of the individual language user. In doing so, this study aims to address the methodological gap between collective change and entrenchment, that is, the gap between language as a social phenomenon and the cognitive processes responsible for the continuous ...
A radically data-driven Construction Grammar: Experiments with Dutch causative constructions KU Leuven
Brain basis of meaning, words, constructions, and grammar Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Discussing aspects of the putative brain basis of meaning-bearing units, ranging from phonemes, morphemes and words over word sequences and schematic syntactic structures to "rules of grammar", we here address the neurobiological foundation of linguistics and the putative beneficial impact of language and neuroscience research. Lexical entries are instantiated in the brain as distributed neuronal assemblies spread out over fronto-temporal ...
A graph-based approach for learner-tailored teaching of Korean grammar constructions Ghent University
Differential subject marking in Nepali imperfective constructions: a probabilistic grammar approach Ghent University
We investigate Differential Subject Marking in Nepali imperfective constructions. No previous accounts were satisfying in explaining under what conditions the ergative marker is preferably used. Building on a probabilistic approach to syntactic variability, we conducted statistical analyses on the basis of corpus data, which compared and evaluated the influence of the predictor variables on the ergative marking. We found evidence for the ...
Grammar of the Wealthy Family. Healthy Communication and Constructive Conflict Management. KU Leuven
Handling Scope in Fluid Construction Grammar: A Case Study for Spanish Modals Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This paper demonstrates one way how the Spanish epistemic modal system can be implemented in Fluid Construction Grammar. Spanish is a Romance language with a rich morpho-phonological system that is characterised by paradigmatic stem changes, a considerable degree of syncretism in verbal suffixes and a sophisticated usage of modal markers. Because the choice of mood does not only depend on the linguistic expression that is used (e.g. ...