Abstract
Relations between frames and constructions must be made explicit in FrameNet-style linguistic resources such as Berkeley FrameNet (Fillmore & Baker, 2010, Fillmore, Lee-Goldman & Rhomieux, 2012), Japanese FrameNet (Ohara, 2013), and Swedish Constructicon (Lyngfelt et al., 2013). On the basis of analyses of Japanese constructions for the purpose of building a constructicon in the Japanese FrameNet project, this paper argues that constructions can be classified based on whether they evoke frames or not. By recognizing such a distinction among constructions, it becomes possible for FrameNet-style linguistic resources to have a proper division of labor between frame annotations and construction annotations. In addition to the three kinds of "meaningless" constructions which have been proposed already, this paper suggests there may be yet another subtype of constructions without meanings. Furthermore, the present paper adds support to the claim that there may be constructions without meanings (Fillmore, Lee-Goldman & Rhomieux, 2012) in a current debate concerning whether all constructions should be seen as meaning-bearing (Goldberg, 2006: 166-182).
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014 |
Publisher | European Language Resources Association (ELRA) |
Pages | 2474-2477 |
Number of pages | 4 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9782951740884 |
Publication status | Published - 2014 Jan 1 |
Event | 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014 - Reykjavik, Iceland Duration: 2014 May 26 → 2014 May 31 |
Other
Other | 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014 |
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Country | Iceland |
City | Reykjavik |
Period | 14/5/26 → 14/5/31 |
Keywords
- Constructicon
- Frame semantics
- Japanese FrameNet
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Linguistics and Language
- Library and Information Sciences
- Education
- Language and Linguistics