Readings

All but one of the readings will be available electronically, at the URLs given below. I will also place a copy of all papers in the SLS/Linguistics Reading Room, Moore 572. You can check out the readings from there for an hour to photocopy them, if you like.

Bergen, Benjamin. ms. Towards morphology and agreement in Embodied Construction Grammar. International Computer Science Institute Technical Report.. http://www2.hawaii.edu/~bergen/papers/ECGmorph.pdf

Bergen, Benjamin. To Appear. Kim Binsted Embodied Grammar and Humor. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research. http://www2.hawaii.edu/~bergen/papers/CogLingHumorBergenBinsted.pdf

Bergen, Benjamin and Nancy Chang. 2005. Embodied Construction Grammar in Simulation-Based Language Understanding. In Jan-Ola Östman and Miriam Fried (Eds.), Construction Grammars: Cognitive Grounding and Theoretical Extensions. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. http://www2.hawaii.edu/~bergen/ECG.pdf

Bergen, Benjamin, Nancy Chang, and Shweta Narayan. 2004. Simulated Action in an Embodied Construction Grammar. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. http://www2.hawaii.edu/~bergen/papers/BCN04.pdf

Bryant, John. 2004. Scalable Construction-Based Parsing and Semantic Analysis. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Scalable Natural Language Understanding. http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/hlt-naacl2004/ScaNaLU/pdf/bryant.pdf

Bryant, John and Eva Mok ms. Constructing English Conditionals: Building Mental Spaces in ECG http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~jbryant/BryantMok290.pdf

Chang, Nancy. 2004. A computational model of comprehension-based construction acquisition. Child Language Research Forum. Stanford, CA. http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~nchang/pubs/Chang04-CLRF.pdf

Chang, Nancy. 2005. Constructing Grammar: A computational model of the acquisition of early constructions. U.C. Berkeley Ph.D. Dissertation. Available TBA.

Chang, Nancy, Jerome Feldman, Robert Porzel and Keith Sanders. (2002). Scaling Cognitive Linguistics: Formalisms for Language Understanding. Paper presented at SCANALU 2002. http://www.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU/~nchang/research/pubs/scaling.pdf

Croft, William. 2005. Logical and typological arguments for Radical Construction Grammar. In Jan-Ola Östman and Miriam Fried (Eds.), Construction Grammars: Cognitive Grounding and Theoretical Extensions, 273-314. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/Info/staff/WAC/Papers/RCG-CAL.pdf

Dodge, Ellen, and Abby Wright. 2002. Herds of Wildebeest, Flasks of Vodka, Heaps of Trouble: An Embodied Construction Grammar Approach to English Measure Phrases. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. http://www2.hawaii.edu/~bergen/ling750X/papers/herds.doc

Goldberg, Adele. 2003. Constructions: A new theoretical approach to language. Trends in Cognitive Science. http://www2.hawaii.edu/~bergen/ling750X/papers/goldberg-tics.pdf

Goldberg, Adele and Ray Jackendoff. 2004.   The English Resultative as a Family of Constructions Language. http://people.brandeis.edu/~jackendo/RESULTAGRJ4.doc

Langacker, Ronald. 1986. An Introduction to Cognitive Grammar. Cognitive Science 10:1-40. Hard copy only.