Argument-structure and implicational constructions in a knowledge base

Authors

  • Alba Luzondo-Oyón Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (España)
  • Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez Universidad de La Rioja (España)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7764/onomazein.35.04

Keywords:

Constructions, Construction Grammar, cognitive models, knowledge-base, Lexical Constructional Model, Natural Language Processing.

Abstract

This paper provides formalized, machine-tractable representations of two broad kinds of constructional configuration, argument-structure and implicational constructions, on the basis of previous linguistic analyses. It discusses computational implementation requirements on constructional description. In this respect, the paper argues that the Goldbergian approach (cf. Goldberg, 2006) provides the best fit for the implementation of implicational constructions, while a “mini-constructionist” account (cf. Boas, 2014) is suitable for argumentstructure constructions. Because of their representativeness, we have chosen to illustrate our discussion by making reference to the family of English resultatives, which are argumentstructure constructions, and to the family of Wh-attitudinal constructions, which are implicational. Computational implementation demands that the members of the family of the resultative be split into mini-constructions, while the complexity of implicational configurations requires that different formal variants be grouped together under one single computational representation. The paper further makes explicit proposals for the machine tractability of lexical-constructional integration and of meaning implications that have reached constructional status through entrenchment, two problems that remain unsolved within standard computational approaches to language processing.

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Author Biographies

Alba Luzondo-Oyón, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (España)

Departamento de Filologías Extranjeras y sus Lingüísticas, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, España. | Correo electrónico: aluzondo@flog.uned.es

Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Universidad de La Rioja (España)

 Departamento de Filologías Modernas, Universidad de La Rioja, España. | Correo electrónico: francisco.ruizdemendoza@unirioja.es

Published

2017-03-31

How to Cite

Luzondo-Oyón, A., & Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. (2017). Argument-structure and implicational constructions in a knowledge base. Onomázein, (35), 25–48. https://doi.org/10.7764/onomazein.35.04

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