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Computational Issues in Fluid Construction Grammar pp 3–36Cite as

Design Methods for Fluid Construction Grammar

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The paper sketches a methodology for designing and implementing complex lexicons and grammars using Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG). FCG emphasizes a functional viewpoint of language and decomposes grammatical systems based on their semantic domains and communicative functions. Rather than directly specifying all the components of a construction explicitly, which would lead to highly complex definitions, FCG uses abstractions in the form of templates that implement design patterns common across human languages.

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Steels, L. (2012). Design Methods for Fluid Construction Grammar. In: Steels, L. (eds) Computational Issues in Fluid Construction Grammar. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7249. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34120-5_1

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