Chapter 9. Aligning constructicons across languages

Bäckström, Linnéa; Lyngfelt, Ben

doi:10.1075/cal.22.09lyn

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“…Recently, there has been substantial work by linguists to develop constructicons for different languages (Lyngfelt et al, 2018;Ziem et al, forthcoming). Some of these constructicons are readily available online, e.g., the Brazilian Portuguese one, but many are either not available or have an interface that makes them difficult to access, e.g., because it is in the constructicon's language.…”

Section: Making Constructicons Availablementioning

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Construction Grammar Provides Unique Insight into Neural Language Models

Leonie¹,

He²,

Otani³

et al. 2023

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Construction Grammar (CxG) has recently been used as the basis for probing studies that have investigated the performance of large pretrained language models (PLMs) with respect to the structure and meaning of constructions. In this position paper, we make suggestions for the continuation and augmentation of this line of research. We look at probing methodology that was not designed with CxG in mind, as well as probing methodology that was designed for specific constructions. We analyse selected previous work in detail, and provide our view of the most important challenges and research questions that this promising new field faces.

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Section: Making Constructicons Availablementioning

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Construction Grammar Provides Unique Insight into Neural Language Models

Leonie¹,

He²,

Otani³

et al. 2023

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“…First, we shall discuss how improvements in RusCxn 2.0 may facilitate typological research in Construction Grammar and improve connectivity between constructicons for different languages. The talks about somehow 'aligning' different databases with constructions to foster typological research in the field have been around since the first major conference on constructicography [19], as few cross-linguistic studies of constructions that existed at that time proved to be rather useful for both theoretical and applied linguistics [20]. Yet, up to date, there still exists no device or platform that could facilitate typological study of constructions from different languages.…”

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Russian Constructicon 2.0: New Features and New Perspectives of the Biggest Constructicon Ever Built

Orlov,

Butenko,

Demidova

et al. 2023

Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies”

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Russian constructicon is an open-access linguistic database containing detailed descriptions of over 3,800 Russian grammatical constructions. In this paper we present a new, enlarged and updated version of Russian Constructicon (RusCxn) as well as new trajectories of development which were opened for the resource after the update. Since its first release, RusCxn, has undergone many significant changes. Our team has expanded the number of constructions present in the database 1,5 times, introduced new meta-information features such as glosses, significantly reworked the architecture and the design of Russian Constructicon’s website, and improved the search facilities. The above-mentioned changes not only make RusCxn more attractive and convenient-to-use, but they can also greatly facilitate typological research in the field of Construction Grammar and improve the mapping between constructicography-orinented resources for different languages.

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“…New NSM-based research on "cultural construction grammar" (Levisen 2018b(Levisen , 2021 follows up from Wierzbicka's seminal work "ethnosyntax" (1979, 2002). Embracing the view that "grammar is thick with cultural meaning" (Enfield 2002:3), cultural construction grammar interacts with the family of approaches called "construction grammar", which seeks to account for the meaning not only of single words and fixed expressions, but the "constructicon" at large (Lyngfelt et al 2018). Treating most of what is traditionally called "grammar" as an inventory of meaning, similar to the lexicon, the cultural construction grammar holistically works from two premises: "lexicogrammar" and "linguaculture": There is no sharp ontological distinction between lexicon and grammar, just as there is no sharp distinction between "language and culture".…”

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Cognitive Cultural Semantics

Levisen,

Fernández,

Hein

2022

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As human beings, we live profoundly meaning-centred lives. But the words and meanings we live by, and the discourse rituals of our daily interactions, most often escape our conscious awareness. This is why the role of linguistic analysis is to “light up the thick darkness of language”, as Benjamin Lee Whorf put it (1956:73), and “thereby much of the thought, the culture, and the outlook upon life of a given community” (ibid). In one of her early visionary works on linguistic semantics, Anna Wierzbicka (1980:22) stated: “this is what semantics is very largely about: the exploration of the depths of our consciousness”. The study of semantics brings together what we have all too often compartmentalized as "language and culture” and “lexicon and grammar”. United by the holistic attempt to understand and illuminate meaning, semanticists have a question space that stands out. Unlike the political scientist who might ask “what is democracy?”, or the biologist who might ask “what is an animal?”, semanticists frame their questions differently: “what does democracy mean?”, and “what does animal mean?”. Semantic studies centre on what words mean to speakers in a given community, and successful semantic analyses capture “emic” perspectives: insider construals of meaning, rather than the views, definitions, and registers of experts and outside observers. The contributors to this special issue all share the idea that the meaning of words intersects with habitual ways of thinking and knowing (roughly, the “cognitive” aspect), and more broadly with ways of living (roughly, the “cultural” aspect), and the approach to semantics that we seek to advance can therefore be called “cognitive cultural semantics”. We also share an approach and a methodology, namely, the “natural semantic metalanguage”, or NSM approach for short, and its method of paraphrase.

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Chapter 9. Aligning constructicons across languages

Cited by 8 publications

References 35 publications

Construction Grammar Provides Unique Insight into Neural Language Models

Construction Grammar Provides Unique Insight into Neural Language Models

Russian Constructicon 2.0: New Features and New Perspectives of the Biggest Constructicon Ever Built

Cognitive Cultural Semantics

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