In cognitive studies on metaphor, the elements and relations responsible for the linguistic instantiations of conceptual metaphors are investigated on the conceptual level of crossdomain mappings. Though the cognitive approach devises strategies to model the inference patterns necessary to understand metaphorical constructions, it has not devised machinery to model the links between metaphorica...

Contrary to current individualistic epistemology, classical rhetoric provides us with a pragmatical conception of ‘testimony’ as a source provided to the orator by the particular community in which he acts. In order to count as usable ‘testimony’, any linguistic instance must comply with specific rules of social sanction. A deliberate attention to the social practices in which ‘testimony’ is gi...

We present the first sizable grammar written for TAG. We present the linguistic coverage of our grammar, and explain the linguistic reasons which lead us to choose the particular representations. We show that TAG formalism provides sufficient constraints for handling most of the linguistic phenomena, with minimal linguistic stipulations. We first state the basic structures needed for parsing Fr...

This paper deals with linguistic constraints encoded in the form of (binary) tables, generally called lexicon-grammar tables. We describe a unified method to compile sets of tables of linguistic constraints into Finite State Automata. This method has been practically implemented in the linguistic platform Unitex. 1 Motivation Finite State Models have been intensively used in Natural Language Pr...

Intensifiers are adverbials or adverbial phrases that used to enhance the meanings of certain constructions. The study aims investigate English intensifiers and their functions as devices emotional enhancement .Moreover; they identify students with this grammatical item. significance research is function linguistic maximize meaning or, in a sense, intensify tone words expressions. Some commonly...

The present work offers a corpus-based approach to the processing of complex constructions, specifically bi-clausal English relative clause constructions (RCC). At the most general level, the goal of the investigation is to help bridge the gap between linguistic and psycholinguistic research. Following a usage-based view on grammar (Langacker 2008), it is presumed that the processing demand of ...

Constructionist approaches to language make use of form-meaning pairings, called constructions, capture all linguistic knowledge that is necessary for comprehending and producing natural expressions. Language processing consists then in combining the constructions a grammar such way they solve given comprehension or production problem. Finding an adequate sequence constitutes search problem com...

This paper describes a theory of the representation and use of linguistic knowledge in a natural language understanding system. The representation system draws much of its insight from the linguistic theory of Fillmore el al. (1988). This models knowledge of language as a large collection of grammatical constructions, each a description of a linguistic regularity. I describe a representation la...