languageconstruct
Languageconstruct is a term sometimes used in linguistics and cognitive science to denote an abstract unit that underlies language production and comprehension. A languageconstruct is typically conceived as a mental representation or schema that encodes information about the legal combinations of linguistic elements and their associated meanings. As such, it functions as a building block that can be activated, combined, and transformed to produce or interpret utterances, independent of any single spoken language.
The notion is treated differently across theoretical traditions. In construction grammar and cognitive linguistics, languageconstructs are
In psycholinguistics and natural language processing, languageconstructs can be operationalized as features or representations used to
Related concepts include grammar, construction grammar, cognitive linguistics, parse trees, and feature geometry.