An Account of Constructions in ASD-STE100: formalizing Non-propositional Meaning in Aviation Instructional Texts
Ana Díaz Galán, María del Carmen Fumero-Pérez · Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja) · 2020
Constructional meaning is essential to understand any piece of natural language; its formalization, however, poses challenges that have to be faced for an adequate processing of natural language. This paper addresses this issue by providing a formalized description of the role that constructional structures play in the controlled natural language ASD-STE100. Based on a corpus of instructional texts written in this language, we will assess the existence in such texts of the four levels of constructional meaning described by the Lexical Constructional Model (Ruiz de Mendoza & Mairal-Usón, 2008; Mairal-Usón & Ruiz de Mendoza, 2009) which, in turn, shape the Constructicons in the FunGramKB knowledge base (Periñán-Pascual, 2013; Periñán-Pascual & Arcas-Túnez, 2014). Our findings show that the technical nature of the controlled language has direct influence on the type of constructions employed, making some of the constructional levels irrelevant. A formalized account of the main types of constructions encountered is also provided.