Publications/Working Materials

The Lexical Constructional Model

An assessment of the LCM and an exploration of its origins can be found in:
2009

Butler, C. S. 2009. The Lexical Constructional Model: Genesis, strengths and challenges. In Deconstructing Constructions. Butler, Christopher S. & Javier Martín Arista (eds.), 117–152. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. PDF.

For another brief assessment of the LCM, read the following book review: http://www.cognitivelinguistics.org/Reviews/butlerarista

Foundational papers

2009

Mairal Usón, Ricardo and Ruiz de Mendoza, Francisco José “Levels of description and explanation in meaning construction”.In Ch. Butler & J. Martín Arista (eds.) Deconstructing Constructions. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins, p. 153 – 198. PDF http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SLCS%20107

2008

Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José and Ricardo Mairal Usón. 2008. ‘Levels of description and constraining factors in meaning construction: an introduction to the Lexical Constructional Model’. Folia Linguistica 42/2 (2008), p. 355–400. PDF http://www.reference-global.com/doi/abs/10.1515/FLIN.2008.355

Other papers

2011

Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José and Ricardo Mairal Usón. 2011. “Constraints on syntactic alternation: lexical-constructional subsumption in the Lexical Constructional Model”. En P. Guerrero (ed.) Morphosyntactic Alternations in English: Functional and Cognitive Perspectives. Equinox Publishing Books.

2008

Mairal Usón, Ricardo and Ruiz de Mendoza, Francisco José 2008 “New challenges for lexical representation within the Lexical-Constructional Model (LCM)” Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses. Vol. 57. p. 137-158 (2008) Universidad de La Laguna.

2008

Mairal Usón, Ricardo and Ruiz de Mendoza, Francisco José, 2008. ‘Internal and external constraints in meaning construction: the lexicon grammar continuum’. In Gibert Maceda, Teresa & Laura Alba-Juez (Eds.) (2008).  Estudios de Filología Inglesa: Homenaje a la Dra. Asunción Alba Pelayo.  Colección Varia. Madrid: UNED, p. 219-237.

2008

Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José and Ricardo Mairal Usón 2008. “Challenging systems of lexical representation”. Journal of English Studies 5-6 (2005-2008). Special Issue: A Tribute to Professor Carmelo Cunchillos, p. 325-356.

2007

Ruiz de Mendoza, F. J. & Mairal, R. 2007b. Levels of semantic representation: where lexicon and grammar meet. Interlingüística 17.

 

Ontological Semantics and Constructions

2011

Mairal-Usón, Ricardo, Periñán-Pascual, Carlos and Pérez Cabello de Alba, María Beatriz. 2011. “Hacia una semántica ontológica en la Gramática del Papel y la Referencia”. In R. Mairal Usón, L. Guerrero and C. González (eds.) El funcionalismo en la teoría lingüística. La Gramática del Papel y la Referencia. Introducción, avances y aplicaciones. Akal: Madrid.

2011

Mairal-Usón, Ricardo, Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José and Periñán-Pascual, Carlos. 2011. “Constructions within a Natural Language Processing Knowledge Base” In H. Boas and F. Gonzálvez-García (eds.) Construction Grammar goes Romance (provisional title). Amsterdam /Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

2011

Pérez Hernández, L. & F. J. Ruiz de Mendoza. 2011. “A Lexical-Constructional Model account of illocution”.Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics 8 (2011): 99-138.

2011

Ruiz de Mendoza, F. J. & Gonzálvez, R. 2010. llocutionary meaning revisited: Subjective-Transitive constructions in the Lexical-Constructional Model. In Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.) Cognitive and Phenomenological Turns in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics (Łódź Studies in Language), Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag; vol. in prep.

2011

Ruiz de Mendoza, F. J. & F. Gonzálvez García. 2011. “Constructional integration in the Lexical-Constructional Model”. BAS (British and American Studies) XVII (2011): 75-95.

2010

Jiménez Briones, R. and M. B. Pérez Cabello de Alba 2010. “An account of selection restrictions within a conceptual framework: Its relevance for Role and Reference Grammar”. Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar. University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. (http://linguistics.buffalo.edu/research/rrg.html

2010

Mairal Usón, Ricardo and Francisco Gonzálvez-García, 2010. “Verbos y construcciones en el espacio cognitivo-funcional del siglo XXI”. In Val Álvaro, José Francisco & María del Carmen Horno Chéliz (in press): /La Gramática del Sentido: Léxico y Sintaxis en la Encrucijada. /Conocimiento, Lenguaje y Comunicación / Knowledge, Language and Communication, 3, Zaragoza, Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza.

2010

Ruiz de Mendoza, F. J. & Gonzálvez, R. 2010. llocutionary meaning revisited: Subjective-Transitive constructions in the Lexical-Constructional Model. In Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.) Cognitive and Phenomenological Turns in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics (Łódź Studies in Language), Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag; vol. in prep.

2010

Ruiz de Mendoza, F. J. & Luzondo, A. 2010. Lexical-constructional subsumption in resultative constructions in English. In M. Brdar, M. Zic, I. Raffaelli, M.-M. Stanojevic, N. Tudjman Vukovic (eds.) Cognitive Linguistics. Between Universality and Variation. Cambridge Scholars Publishing; vol. in prep.

2010

Ruiz de Mendoza, F. J. & Mairal, R. 2010. Constraints on syntactic alternation: lexical-constructional subsumption in the Lexical-Constructional Model. In P. Guerrero (ed.) Morphosyntactic Alternations in English. Functional and Cognitive Perspectives. London, UK/ Oakville, CT: Equinox; 62-82.

2010

Neagu Mariana. 2010. On Meanings of 'Construction'. Past and Recent Approaches. In 'Communication interculturelle et litterature', no. 1(9)/2010, Galati: Europlus, pp 354-360.

2009

Mairal Usón, Ricardo and Carlos Periñán-Pascual, 2009. “Role and Reference Grammar and Ontological Engineering”. Volumen Homenaje a Enrique Alcaraz. Universidad de Alicante.

2009

Peña Cervel, Sandra 2009. “Constraints on subsumption in the caused-motion construction.” Language Sciences 31 (2009) 740–765.

2009

Pérez Hernández, L. and Peña Cervel, S. 2009 «Pragmatic and Cognitive Constraints on Lexical-Constructional Subsumption.” ATLANTIS 31.2 : 57-73 http://www.atlantisjournal.org/ARCHIVE/31.2/31.2.html

2009

Pérez Hernández, L. 2009 «Análisis léxico-construccional de verbos de habla.” Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación 40: 62-93 http://www.ucm.es/info/circulo/no40/index.htm

2007

Ruiz de Mendoza, F. J. & Baicchi, A. 2007. Illocutionary Constructions: Cognitive motivation and linguistic realization. In I. Kecskes & L. Horn (eds.) Explorations in Pragmatics:  Linguistic, Cognitive, and Intercultural Aspects. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter; 95-128.

 

Knowledge Engineering: FunGramKB

2011

Periñán-Pascual, J.C. and R. Mairal Usón. (2011) “The COHERENT Methodology in FunGramKB. Onomazein.

2010

Mairal Usón, Ricardo and Carlos Periñán-Pascual, 2010. “Teoría lingüística y representación del conocimiento: una discusión preliminar.” In Dolores García Padrón & Maria del Carmen Fumero Pérez (eds.) Tendencias en lingüística general y aplicada. Berlin: Peter Lang, pp. 155-168.

2010

Periñán-Pascual, Carlos. and Francisco Arcas-Túnez 2010. “Ontological Commitments in FungramKB”. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural 44, pp. 27-34.

2010

Periñán-Pascual, Carlos. and Francisco Arcas-Túnez 2010. “The architecture of FunGramKB” 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 17-23 mayo 2010, Valeta (Malta). Proceedingso of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp.2667-2674 (ISBN: 2-9517408-6-7).Periñán-Pascual, Carlos and Ricardo Mairal Usón. 2010. “Enhancing UniArab with FunGramKB”. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural 44, pp. 19-26. PDF

2010

Periñán-Pascual, Carlos and Ricardo Mairal Usón. 2010 “La Gramática de COREL: un lenguaje de representación conceptual”. Onomazein. 21 (2010/1), p. 11-45. PDF

2009

Mairal Usón, Ricardo and Carlos Periñán-Pascual,. “The anatomy of the lexicon component within the framework of a conceptual knowledge base” .Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada 22 (2009), 217-244. PDF

2009

Periñán-Pascual, Carlos and Ricardo Mairal Usón 2009. “Bringing Role and Reference Grammar to natural language understanding” .Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, vol. 43, pp. 265-273. PDF

 

Applications: Terminology management and translation

2011

Faber, P., R. Mairal y P. Magaña (2011) “Linking a Domain-SpecificOntologyto a General Ontology”. Proceedings of the 24th International Flairs (Florida ArtificalIntelligenceResearchSociety) Conference. AAAI Press (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence).
http://aaai.org/ocs/index.php/FLAIRS/FLAIRS11/paper/view/2523/3107

2011

Mairal-Usón, Ricardo, Periñán-Pascual, Carlos and Samaniego Fernández, Eva (2011). "Using ontologies for terminological knowledge representation: a preliminary discussion". Technological innovation in the teaching and processing of LSPs:
 Proceedings of TISLID'10(eds. N. Talaván, E. Martín Monje y F. Palazón). UNED: Madrid. ISBN: 978-84-362-6217-9. PDF

2011

Periñán-Pascual, Carlos and Mairal-Usón, Ricardo. 2011. “La dimensión computacional de la Gramática del Papel y la Referencia: la estructura lógica conceptual y su aplicación en el procesamiento del lenguaje natural”. In R. Mairal Usón, L. Guerrero and C. González (eds.) El funcionalismo en la teoría lingüística. La Gramática del Papel y la Referencia. Introducción, avances y aplicaciones. Akal: Madrid.

2010

Felices Lago, Ángel (2010) “Teaching and research in Business English: a descriptive approach to the Spanish context”, Professional English in the European Context: The EHEA Challenge. Ángeles Linde López & Rosalía Crespo Jiménez (eds.). Linguistic Insights, vol. 109. (Studies in Language and Communication). Berna: Peter Lang, pp. 81-102.

2010

Felices Lago, Ángel (2010) “Axiological Analysis of Entries in a Spanish Law Dictionary and their English Equivalents”, Researching Language and the Law: Textual Features and Translation Issues. Davide Simone Giannoni & Celina Frade (eds.). Linguistic Insights, vol. 121. (Studies in Language and Communication). Berna: Peter Lang, pp. 179-198

2010

Hewitt, Elaine & Felices Lago, Ángel (2010) “Academic style and format of doctoral theses: The case of the disappearing discussion chapter”, Ibérica. Journal of the European Association of Languages for Specific Purposes. Vol. 19 (Spring 2010), pp. 119-140.

2010

Samaniego Fernández, E. 2010. “The impact of Cognitive Linguistics on Descriptive Translation Studies: novel metaphors in English-Spanish newspaper translation as a case in point”. En Iraide, I. and A. Rojo (eds.), Cognitive Linguistics and Translation:Advances in some Theoretical Models and Application. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

2010

Samaniego Fernández, E. y M. B.Pérez Cabello de Alba 2010. “What Cognitive Linguistics has contributed to Translation Studies”. Actas del IX Congreso Internacional de Lingüística General.

2009

Felices Lago, Ángel; Cortés de los Ríos, Mª Enriqueta (2009): “A cognitive-axiological approach to print eco-advertisements in The Economist: the energy sector under scrutiny”, Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, 4/2009, pp. 59-78.

2008

Felices Lago, Ángel (2008): “Human qualities and faults in terminological contexts: axiological sample analysis in a marketing dictionary”, Researching and teaching specialized languages: New contexts, new challenges. (Proceedings of the VII AELFE Conference, Murcia, september 2008). Sánchez Hernández, P., Pérez-Paredes, P., Aguado Jiménez, P. and Criado Sánchez, R. (Eds.). Murcia: Editum, pp. 261-72.

2008

Felices Lago, Ángel (2008): “Las cualidades demandadas al solicitante de empleo en español frente al inglés: análisis semántico-axiológico de las ofertas de trabajo en la prensa española”, Lingue, culture, economia. Comunicazione e pratiche discorsive. Maria Vittoria Calvi, Giovanna Mapelli, Javier Santos López (eds.). Milán: Franco Angeli, pp. 95-110.

2008

Ruiz de Mendoza, F. J. 2008. Cross-linguistic analysis, second language teaching and cognitive semantics: the case of Spanish diminutives and reflexive constructions. In S. De Knop & T. De Rycker (eds.). Cognitive Approaches to Pedagogical Grammar - Volume in Honor of René Dirven.Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter; 121–152.

2006

Felices Lago, Ángel (2006) “La codificación del parámetro axiológico en la terminología financiera y de inversión: el español y el portugués frente a la influencia del inglés”, Nuevas tendencias en el discurso de especialidad. Maria Vittoria Calvi y Luisa Chierichetti (eds.). Linguistic Insights, vol. 50. (Studies in Language and Communication). Berna: Peter Lang, pp. 203-222.

2004

Felices Lago, Ángel y Hewitt, Elaine (2004). "Personal Qualities of Applicants in Job Advertisements: Axiological and Lexical Analysis of Samples in English from the Spanish Press", LSP and Professional Communication, Vol. 4, n. 2, October 2004, pp. 8-27.

 

Cognitive modeling

2011

Baicchi, A. & F. J. Ruiz de Mendoza. 2011. “The cognitive grounding of illocutionary constructions within the theoretical perspective of the Lexical-Constructional Model”. Textus. English Studies in Italy (2011/1); en prensa.

2011

Benczes, R., A. Barcelona Sánchez & F. J. Ruiz De Mendoza. (Eds.) 2011. Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics: Towards a Consensus View. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

2011

Bertucelli, M. & F. J. Ruiz de Mendoza (eds.). 2011. “Introduction”. Cognition and the Brain in Language and Linguistics. Número especial de la revista Textus. English Studies in Italy (2011/1); en prensa.

2011

Jiménez Briones, R. & A. Luzondo Oyón (2011). "Building ontological meaning in a lexico-conceptual knowledge base". Onomázein 23, 11-40. http://www.onomazein.net/

2011

Panther, Klaus. 2011. "Motivation in Language". En S. Kreitler (ed.) Cognition and Motivation: Forging an Interdisciplinary Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. En preparación. PDF.

2011

Panther, Klaus-Uwe & Günter Radden (eds.). 2011. Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon (Human Cognitive Processing 27). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins.

2011

Panther, Klaus-Uwe & Günter Radden. 2011. “Introduction: Reflections on motivation revisited”. In: K.-U.Panther & G. Radden (eds.), Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon (Human Cognitive Processing 27), 1–26. Amsterdam & Philadelphia.

2011

Panther, Klaus-Uwe & Linda L. Thornburg. 2011. “EMOTION and DESIRE in independent complement clauses: A case study from German”. In: Mario Brdar, Milena Zµic Fuchs & Stefan T. Gries (eds.), Converging and Diverging Tendencies in Cognitive Linguistics (Human Cognitive Processing 33), 87–114. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins.

2011

Ruiz de Mendoza, F. J. (2011). "Metonymy and cognitive operations". In: Benczes, R., Barcelona, A. & Ruiz de Mendoza, F. J. (eds.), Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics. Towards a consensus view. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 103-123.

2011

Ruiz de Mendoza, F. J. & L. Pérez Hernández. 2011. “The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor: myths, developments and challenges”. Metaphor & Symbol 26: 1-25.

2010

Baicchi, Annalisa (in press), “Metaphoric motivation in grammatical structure. The case of the caused-motion construction from the perspective of the Lexical-Constructional Model. In Guenter Radden, Klaus Uwe Panther, Peter Koch, Motivation in Lexicon, Grammar, and Discourse. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia, John Benjamins

2010

Galera Masegosa, Alicia. "A cognitive approach to simile-based idiomatic expressions". CLAC (Circulo de Lingüistica Aplicada a la Comunicación). http://www.ucm.es/info/circulo/no43/galera.pdf

2010

Köpcke, Klaus-Michael, Klaus-Uwe Panther & David Zubin. 2010. “Motivating grammatical and conceptual gender agreement in German”. In: H.-J. Schmid & S. Handl (eds.), Cognitive Foundations of Linguistic Usage Patterns (Applications of Cognitive Linguistics 13), 171–194. Berlin & New York: De Gruyter Mouton.

2010

Radden, Günter & Klaus-Uwe Panther. 2010. “Metonymy”. In: P. Colm Hogan (ed.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 501-502.

2009

Baicchi, Annalisa (2009), “Idealized Cognitive Models at the interface between lexis and grammar”. In Ignasi Navarri I Ferrando & Antonio José Silvestre Lopez (eds.). Language Systems and Cognitive Perspective. Valencia, Tirant lo Blanch, pp. 187-208.

2009

Baicchi, Annalisa 2009. “The subsumption process of the intransitive-transitive migration”. In Domenico Torretta, Marina Dossena, Annamaria Sportelli, Forms of Migration, Migration of Forms, Bari, Progedit. pp.: 21- 41.

2009

Baicchi, Annalisa 2009. “Some observations on the typological constraints to translation praxis”. In G.Palumbo, I vincoli del tradurre. Modena. pp.: 19-30.

2009

Baicchi, Annalisa 2009. “Speech Act Theory”. In Siobhan Chapman & Christopher Routledge (eds), Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, pp.: 212-219.

2008

Baicchi, Annalisa 2008. “Quantitative Valency Addition within the Lexical-Constructional Model”. In M.Constant, T.Nakamura, M.De Gioia, S.Vecchiato (eds.). Actes du 27 ème Colloque International sur le Lexique et la Grammaire. Université Paris-Est. pp. 257-265.

2008

Baicchi, Annalisa 2008. “Constructing Meaning through Grammar. Observations on Constructional Complexity”, in Marcella Bertuccelli Papi et al. Studi di Linguistica e Letteratura. Festschrift in honor of Lavinia Merlini Barbaresi. Pisa: Felici, pp.: 447-463.

2008

Ruiz de Mendoza, F. J. & Peña, S. 2008. Gramatical metonymy within the ‘action’ frame in English and Spanish. In M. A. Gómez, J. L. Mackenzie & E. M. González-Álvarez (eds.) Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics: Functional and Cognitive Perspectives. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins; 251-280.

2007

Baicchi, Annalisa 2007. “Aspects of Meaning Constructions”. Invited review article of G.Radden et al.. In Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics 5. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia, John Benjamins. pp.: 307-323.

2007

Baicchi, Annalisa 2007, “Pragmatica e Semantica”, con Marcella Bertuccelli Papi. In Giovanni Iamartino (ed.) La linguistica inglese negli ultimi dieci anni SILTA. Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata. Roma, pp. 91-123

2007

Baicchi, Annalisa 2007, “On the linguistic representation of space: a contrastive analysis of path conformation”. In Iottini L., Del Lungo G., Douthwaite J., Cityscapes. Islands of the Self. Language. Language Studies, volume 2, Cagliari, Cluec: pp.: 83-101.

2007

Baicchi, Annalisa 2007, “Illocutionary constructions. Cognitive motivation and linguistic realization”, with Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza. In: Kecskes, Istvan & Laurence Horn (eds.) Explorations in Pragmatics: Linguistic, Cognitive, and Intercultural Aspects; Berlin/New York, Mouton de Gruyter: pp. 95-128

2007

Baicchi, Annalisa 2007, “Conceptual Integration and Translation”. In Marcella Bertuccelli Papi et al. (eds.), Lexical complexity: theoretical assessment and translational perspectives, Pisa: PLUS, pp: 85-98.

2007

Ruiz de Mendoza, F. J. 2007. High level cognitive models: in search of a unified framework for inferential and grammatical behavior”. In Kosecki, K. (ed.) Perspectives on Metonymy. Frankfurt/Main. Peter Lang; 11-30.

2007

Ruiz de Mendoza, F. J. & Mairal, R. 2007a. High-level metaphor and metonymy in meaning construction. In G. Radden, K.-M. Köpcke, T. Berg & P. Siemund (eds.) Aspects of Meaning Construction. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins; 33-51.

2005

Ruiz de Mendoza, F. J. and Peña, S. 2005. Conceptual interaction, cognitive operations and projection spaces. In Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, F. J. and Peña Cervel, S. (eds.)Cognitive Linguistics: Internal Dynamics and Interdisciplinary Interaction, 254-280.. Berlin: Mouton.

2003

Ruiz de Mendoza, F. J. & Santibáñez F. 2003. Content and formal cognitive operations in construing meaning. Italian Journal of Linguistics 15(2): 293-320.

2002

Ruiz de Mendoza, F. J. & Díez, O. 2002. "Patterns of conceptual interaction". In Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast, René Dirven and Ralph Pörings (eds.), 489-532. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

2001

Ruiz de Mendoza, F. J. & Pérez, L. 2001. "Metonymy and the grammar: motivation, constraints and interaction", Language & Communication, vol. 21-4: 321-357.

2000

Ruiz de Mendoza, F. J. 2000. The role of mappings and domains in understanding metonymy. In A. Barcelona (ed.). Metaphor and Metonymy at the Crossroads. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter; 109-132.

1998

Ruiz de Mendoza, F. J. 1998. On the nature of blending as a cognitive phenomenon. Journal of Pragmatics 30 (3): 259-274.

1997

Ruiz de Mendoza, F. J. 1997. Metaphor, metonymy and conceptual interaction. ATLANTIS. Revista de la Asoaciación Española de Estudios Anglonorteamericanos 19/1: 281-295.