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Computational Construction Grammar presents a comprehensive framework for understanding grammar through the lens of usage-based linguistics and computational modeling. This work bridges cognitive linguistics and computational methods to explain how grammatical structures arise from patterns in actual language use.
Jonathan Dunn demonstrates how construction grammar—a theory positing that grammar consists of constructions at multiple levels of abstraction—can be effectively modeled computationally. The book explores how speakers acquire and process language through exposure to frequent patterns, and how these patterns become conventionalized as grammatical constructions.
The computational approach provides new insights into longstanding linguistic questions about language acquisition, processing, and variation. By combining theoretical linguistics with practical computational implementation, this work offers researchers and students a rigorous methodology for investigating grammar as a dynamic, usage-driven system rather than a fixed set of rules.
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