Construction Analysis for REAPAmarcord

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Title: Construction Analysis for REAPAmarcord

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Construction Analysis for REAP/Amarcord

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Constructions

From Goldberg and Jackendoff, 2004, 532-533
a. There is a cline of grammatical phenomena
from the totally general to the totally
idiosyncratic.
b. Everything on this cline is to be stated in a
common format, from the most particularto the
most general, such as principles.with many
sub-regularities in between.
c. At the level of phrasal syntax, pieces of
syntax connected to meaning in a conventionalized
and partially idiosyncratic way are captured by
CONSTRUCTIONS.

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Constructions

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Constructions

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Why Constructions?

Most foreign/second language textbooks that Ive
looked at are organized by constructions.
Normal things like relative clauses with
non-subject gaps can also be treated as
constructions, on the compositional end of the
cline.
There may be something interesting that
researchers have neglected, which is not quite
grammar and not quite lexicon, but kind of like
each.
Nick Ellis has written some things about
constructions in second language acquisition, but
its not clear that he has run rigorous
experiments.

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Construction pattern for have something
available

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Find sentences that match the pattern

The National Park Service hopes by 1966 to have
30,000 campsites available for 100,000 campers a
day -- almost twice what there are at present.
(TOP (S (NP (DT The) (NNP National) (NNP Park)
(NNP Service)) (VP (VBZ hopes) (PP (IN by) (NP
(CD 1966))) (S (NP (-NONE- )) (AUX (TO to))
(VP (VB have)
(NP (CD 30,000) (NNS campsites))
(ADJP (JJ available) (PP (IN for) (NP (NP (NP (CD
100,000) (NNS campers)) (NP (DT a) (NN day))).

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More sentences that match the pattern

The disadvantages to this method are that you may
not have as great a choice of models readily
available or you may have to wait a few days
or, during the busy tourist season , when cars
are in great demand, you might find it fairly
difficult to get a car at all.
The Royal Air Force had but a single light
anti-aircraft squadron and two balloon units
available.
For the making of selections on the basis of
excellence requires that any foundation making
the selections shall have available the judgments
of a corps of advisors whose judgments T are
known to be good such judgments can be known
to be good only by the records of those
selected , by records made subsequent to their
selection over considerable periods of time.
Approaching this problem on a statistical basis
is invalid, because the opponent has the same
sources available and will be encountered not
under average conditions, but under the
conditions most advantageous to him.

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Intellectual meritContribution to various
fields

NLP
Construction Analysis tool that has applications
in machine translation, information extraction,
and computer-assisted language learning.
But something similar has been built by Philip
Resnik (Linguists Search Engine).
Research Issues
Is it effective without word sense
disambiguation?
Is it more effective with phrase structure trees
or dependency trees?

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Intellectual meritContribution to various fields

Second language acquisition
A tool that can enable a line of research on the
role of constructions in second language
acquisition.
Issues about form and function?
Issues about implicit, explicit, and drawing
attention in the teaching of grammar?
Issues about grammar and reading?

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Intellectual meritContribution to various fields