Construction Driven Language Processing
Jerry T. Ball · eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 2005
Construction Grammar is an emerging linguistic theory based on the notion of constructions—linguistic representations of form, function and meaning. This paper describes an approach to language processing during comprehension based on the activation, selection, and integration of constructions corresponding to the linguistic input. In considering the use of constructions as the basis for language processing and representation, it becomes clear that a fully integrated representation may not in principle be possible. Instead, the representations are likely to be integrated just to the extent supported by the constructions activated by the input and selected for integration. Some implications of construction-driven language processing for Double R Theory (Ball, 2005) are also explored.