This chapter1 is intended as an introduction to some of the central notions of Sign-Based
Construction Grammar (SBCG). 2 For a more general discussion of SBCG, including an …

1Above all, I'd like to thank Paul Kay for hours of discussion and useful feedback at every
stage in the seemingly endless process of writing this chapter. I'm also grateful to Chuck …

French is a syntactically interesting language, with aspects of its word order and clause
structure triggering a variety of important developments in syntactic theory. This is a concise …

1 Introduction On the assumption that the syntax generates hierarchical representations that
are accessed by both sound and meaning systems, it is an empirical question how the …

Prepositions1—as well as prepositional phrases (PPs) and markers of various sorts—have a
mixed history in computational linguistics (CL), as well as related fields such as artificial …

The term 'constraint-based lexicalism'(henceforth CBL) was coined in the mid 1990s to
denote a set of linguistic theories sharing two main design properties: 1 Strong lexicalism …

De Wüllner et Hjelmslev à Lyons, d'Anderson à la linguistique cognitive, le lien particulier
entre espace et langage a souvent été affirmé ou contredit. Les études en typologie …

This paper is intended as an introduction to some of the central notions of Sign-Based
Construction Grammar (SBCG). SBCG is an attempt to adapt ideas developed over a twenty …

Modern Persian conjugation makes use of five periphrastic constructions with typologically
divergent properties. This makes the Persian conjugation system an ideal testing ground for …

I consider preposition-determiner contractions in various European languages and offer a
uniform approach using optimality-theoretic Lexical-Functional Grammar with lexical …