Speech Act Constructions in Universal Dependencies

Abstract

Is the framework of Universal Dependencies (UD) compatible with findings from linguistic typology about constructions in the world’s languages? To address this question, we need to systematically review how UD represents these constructions, and how it handles the range of morphosyntactic variation attested across languages. In this paper, we present the results of such a review focusing on speech act constructions. We find that UD currently lack mechanisms for systematically capturing speech act constructions and briefly discuss ways in which this can be remedied.

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