Grammaticalization and Semantic Maps: Evidence from Artificial Language

Trijp, Remi van

doi:10.1349/ps1.1537-0852.a.355

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“…In the remainder of this paper, we will consider constructional relations, which specify associations between constructions at the same level of abstraction. Constructional relations have long been ignored in usage-based construction grammar, but a number of recent studies have argued that constructional relations, also known as lateral or horizontal relations, are key to understand grammatical phenomena (e.g., Diessel and Tomasello, 2005 ; van Trijp, 2010 ; Van de Velde, 2014 ; Norde and Morris, 2018 ).…”

Section: Paradigmatic Alternatives: Voice Case Number and Negationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Dynamic Network Approach to the Study of Syntax

Diessel

2020

Front. Psychol.

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Usage-based linguists and psychologists have produced a large body of empirical results suggesting that linguistic structure is derived from language use. However, while researchers agree that these results characterize grammar as an emergent phenomenon, there is no consensus among usage-based scholars as to how the various results can be explained and integrated into an explicit theory or model. Building on network theory, the current paper outlines a structured network approach to the study of grammar in which the core concepts of syntax are analyzed by a set of relations that specify associations between different aspects of a speaker’s linguistic knowledge. These associations are shaped by domain-general processes that can give rise to new structures and meanings in language acquisition and language change. Combining research from linguistics and psychology, the paper proposes specific network analyses for the following phenomena: argument structure, word classes, constituent structure, constructions and construction families, and grammatical categories such as voice, case and number. The article builds on data and analyses presented in Diessel (2019; The Grammar Network. How Linguistic Structure is Shaped by Language Use) but approaches the topic from a different perspective.

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Section: Paradigmatic Alternatives: Voice Case Number and Negationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Dynamic Network Approach to the Study of Syntax

Diessel

2020

Front. Psychol.

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“…Modeling may be a way to do that, and to bring new constructional ideas into work on grammaticalization. Thirdly, thinking more in terms of computational modeling could establish links between the linguistic community that pursues research on grammaticalization and constructional change on one side, and the community of researchers that study language evolution with computational methods, specifically agent-based modeling (e.g., Wellens et al 2013;van Trijp 2010 on the other. Making this link would not only yield a mutual enrichment of the two research communities, but it would also address a criticism made by Janda (2001: 266), who remarks that there is relatively little research that addresses "those agents who are the real locus of language change: individual speakers and their collective social groups".…”

Section: Brought To You By | Universitaetsbibliothek Baselmentioning

confidence: 99%

From hand-carved to computer-based: Noun-participle compounding and the upward strengthening hypothesis

Hilpert

2015

Cognitive Linguistics

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This paper addresses the recent history of noun-participle compounding in English. This word formation process is illustrated by forms such as hand-carved or computer-based. Data from the COHA shows that over the last two-hundred years, such forms have undergone a substantial increase in type and token frequency. These quantitative changes motivate an exploration of the qualitative changes that have accompanied them. A diachronic analysis of the noun and participle types that are recruited into noun-participle compounds reveals that the word formation process has changed substantially with regard to its component parts. While the observable changes in noun-participle compounding match several defining criteria of grammaticalization, it is argued here that these developments are more usefully seen as a process of constructional change. To distinguish between those two, this paper develops an idea that is called the upward strengthening hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, grammaticalization happens when the activation of a node in a constructional network strengthens not only that node itself, but also a node that is situated at a higher, more abstract level of that network.

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“…The experiments reported in this book have significantly pushed the state-of-the-art by showing how polysemous categories may emerge in a multi-agent population (for more recent results, see van Trijp 2010a;2011b;2012d,e). Moreover, the experiments have identified multi-level selection as a crucial step in the transition from lexical to grammatical languages.…”

Section: Artificial Language Evolutionmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Fluid Construction Grammar has already been used for investigating the emergence of compositionality (De Beule & Bergen 2006), recursion and hierarchy (Bleys 2008;De Beule 2007;, structures for expressing second-order meanings (Steels & Bleys 2005) and semantic roles (Steels 2004a;van Trijp 2008c). …”

Section: Towards Grammarmentioning

confidence: 99%