



Construction Grammar is enthusiastically embraced by a growing group of linguists who find it a natural way to formulate their analyses. But so far there is no widespread formalization of construction grammar with a solid computational implementation. Fluid Construction Grammar attempts to fill this gap. It is a fully operational computational framework capturing many key concepts in construction grammar. The present book is the first extensive publication describing this framework. In addition to general introductions, it gives a number of concrete examples through a series of linguistically challenging case studies, including phrase structure, case grammar, and modality. The book is suited both for linguists who want to know what Fluid Construction Grammar looks like and for computational linguists who may want to use this computational framework for their own experiments or applications.

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Demonstrations, source code and samples

You can find interactive web demonstrations of the examples discussed in the book in our demonstrations page.

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Contributions

Part I: Introduction

Steels, Luc Introducing Fluid Construction Grammar Incollection Steels, Luc (Ed.): Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar, pp. 3-30, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2011. @incollection{steels2011introducing,

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Close Steels, Luc A First Encounter with Fluid Construction Grammar Incollection Steels, Luc (Ed.): Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar, pp. 31-68, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2011. @incollection{steels2011encounter,

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Part II: Grammatical Structures

Steels, Luc A Design Pattern for Phrasal Constructions Incollection Steels, Luc (Ed.): Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar, pp. 71-114, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2011. @incollection{steels2011phrasal,

title = {A Design Pattern for Phrasal Constructions},

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Close van Trijp, Remi A Design Pattern for Argument Structure Constructions Incollection Steels, Luc (Ed.): Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar, pp. 115-145, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2011. @incollection{vantrijp2011design,

title = {A Design Pattern for Argument Structure Constructions},

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Part III: Managing Processing

Bleys, Joris; Stadler, Kevin; Beule, Joachim De Search in Linguistic Processing Incollection Steels, Luc (Ed.): Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar, pp. 149-179, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2011. @incollection{bleys2011search,

title = {Search in Linguistic Processing},

author = {Joris Bleys and Kevin Stadler and Joachim De Beule},

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Close Wellens, Pieter Organizing Constructions in Networks Incollection Steels, Luc (Ed.): Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar, pp. 181-201, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2011. @incollection{wellens2011networks,

title = {Organizing Constructions in Networks},

author = {Pieter Wellens},

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Part IV:Case Studies

van Trijp, Remi Feature Matrices and Agreement: A Case Study for German Case Incollection Steels, Luc (Ed.): Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar, pp. 205-235, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2011. @incollection{vantrijp2011feature,

title = {Feature Matrices and Agreement: A Case Study for German Case},

author = {Remi van Trijp},

editor = {Luc Steels},

url = {http://www.fcg-net.org/wp-content/uploads/papers/vantrijp2011feature.pdf},

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Close Spranger, Michael; Loetzsch, Martin Syntactic Indeterminacy and Semantic Ambiguity: A Case Study for German Spatial Phrases Incollection Steels, Luc (Ed.): Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar, pp. 265-298, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2011. @incollection{spranger2011indeterminacy,

title = {Syntactic Indeterminacy and Semantic Ambiguity: A Case Study for German Spatial Phrases},

author = {Michael Spranger and Martin Loetzsch},

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Part V: Fluidity and Robustness

Steels, Luc; van Trijp, Remi How to Make Construction Grammars Fluid and Robust Incollection Steels, Luc (Ed.): Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar, pp. 301-330, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2011. @incollection{steels2011fluidity,

title = {How to Make Construction Grammars Fluid and Robust},

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