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Fluid construction grammar was primarily developed for supporting the on-line processing and learning of grammatical language in robotic language game setups, and with a focus on semantics and constructrion grammar. In contrast, many related formalisms were developed to support the formulation of static, primarily syntactic theories of natural language. As a result, many of fcg’s features are absent in other formalisms, or take a somewhat different form. This can be confusing and give fcg a ‘peculiar’ status from the perspective of those more familiar with other formalisms. This chapter aims to clarify some of these peculiarities by providing a formal deconstruction of fcg based on a reconstruction of it’s history.
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De Beule, J. (2012). A Formal Deconstruction of Fluid Construction Grammar. In: Steels, L. (eds) Computational Issues in Fluid Construction Grammar. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7249. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34120-5_9
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