Constructions at Work: The Nature of Generalization in Language

By Adele E. Goldberg. 2006

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Conventionalization: A new agenda for im/politeness research (2015, unknown): “That is, an expression is a specific form/function combination with certain parts being fixed and others being open variables, akin to constructions in Construction Grammar (Goldberg, 2006).”
Language Is a Complex Adaptive System: Position Paper (2009, background): “They have become increasingly influential in the study of child language acquisition (Goldberg, 2006; Tomasello, 2003).”
Usage‐Based Language: Investigating the Latent Structures That Underpin Acquisition (2013, methodology): “…that Zipfian distributional properties of language usage helps to make language learnable has just begun to be explored for a small number of VACs in first (Goldberg, 2006; Goldberg et al., 2004) and second language acquisition (Ellis & Ferreira-Junior, 2009a, 2009b; Ellis & LarsenFreeman, 2009a).”
More than words: Frequency effects for multi-word phrases (2010, methodology): “Finding that more frequent phrases on the lower frequency range were also responded to faster is not compatible with a threshold model where only linguistic units of sufficient frequency can attain independent representation (Biber et al., 1999; Goldberg, 2006; Wray, 2002).”
Generalization without Systematicity: On the Compositional Skills of Sequence-to-Sequence Recurrent Networks (2017, background): “After all, human language does have plenty of generalization patterns that are not easily accounted for by algebraic compositionality (see, e.g., Goldberg, 2005).”
Examining the role of lexical frequency in the acquisition and processing of sentential complements (2006, background): “Goldberg and co-workers (Casenhiser & Goldberg, 2005; Goldberg, 1999, 2005; Goldberg et al., 2004) have argued that semantically general, high frequency verbs which occur with high frequency in individual constructions facilitate the acquisition of syntax.”
Essentials of a Theory of Language Cognition (2019, background): “Constructions range from morphemes— the smallest pairing of form and meaning in language—towords, phrases, and syntactic frames (Goldberg, 2006; Trousdale & Hoffmann, 2013).”
Adult learners’ retention of collocations from exposure (2010, background): “However, as Goldberg (2007) has noted, if the effects of repetition over time are ever to be felt, some memory trace must be left by even a single exposure to a stretch of language.”
Good Question! Statistical Ranking for Question Generation (2010, background): “Goldberg (2006) provides a concise summary of them.”
An Academic Formulas List: New Methods in Phraseology Research (2010, background): “…of language representation are constructions—form-meaning mappings, conventionalized in the speech community, and entrenched as language knowledge in the learner’s mind (Langacker 1987; Tomasello 1998, 2003; Barlow and Kemmer 2000; Croft and Cruise 2004; Goldberg 2006; Robinson and Ellis 2008;).”
Argument Structure in Usage-Based Construction Grammar: Experimental and corpus-based perspectives (2015, background): “Another appealing aspect is that lexical units of argument realization are conventionalized form-meaning pairs instead of decontextualized lexical entries, thereby providing continuity with argument structure constructions (see also Goldberg, 2006; Boas, 2008).”
Corpus evidence of the viability of statistical preemption (2011, background): “Therefore an account based on entrenchment would seem to inappropriately rule out the sentences in (7)-(10) as unacceptable (Goldberg 2006).”