An Informal Sketch of a Formal Architecture for Construction Grammar

Abstract. A formal architecture for Construction Grammar (CG) is sketched. Modeling domain objects (constructs) are constituent structures with feature structures at the nodes, aka Feature Structure Trees (FTs). Constructions are partial descriptions of FTs, expressed as sets of constituent structure equations and path equations. Unification of constructions is defined. A construct c is licensed by a grammar G iff G contains a set of constructions whose unification fully describes c. Key words: constraint-based, constructions, construction grammar, grammatical constructions

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: GRAMMARS
• Authors: Paul Kay
• Keywords: Construction Grammar, Constructions, Feature Structure, GRAMMARS 2002