Enhancing a Role and Reference Grammar approach to English motion constructions in a Natural Language Processing environment

  1. Luzondo-Oyón, Alba 1
  2. Jiménez-Briones, Rocío 2
  1. 1 Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
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    Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

    Madrid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02msb5n36

  2. 2 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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    Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01cby8j38

Revue:
Círculo de lingüística aplicada a la comunicación

ISSN: 1576-4737

Année de publication: 2017

Titre de la publication: Metapragmática del humor infantil

Número: 70

Pages: 183-204

Type: Article

DOI: 10.5209/CLAC.56322 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAccès ouvert editor

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Résumé

This paper puts forward a finer-grained computational treatment of the English caused-motion construction (e.g. He kicked the ball into the net) within a knowledge base for natural language processing systems called FunGramKB. This computational project is largely based on Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), which is a functional projectionist theory of language. We argue that the RRG-based characterization of the caused-motion construction in FunGramKB is insufficient to account for the semantic and syntactic complexity of realizations such as He walked the dog to the park, I will show you out, or Mac flew Continental to Bush International Airport. Thus, drawing on insights from Constructions Grammars, three minimally distinct transitive motion sub-constructions are formalized within FunGramKB. It is through the inclusion of additional constructional schemas that the machine will be able to capture the various ways in which verbs and constructions interact to yield different input texts.

Information sur le financement

The research projects on which this paper is based have received financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, grants no. FFI2013-43593-P and FFI2014-53788-C3-1-P.

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