FrameNet und ein "Konstruktikon" für das Deutsche

Under the direction of Prof. Alexander Ziem, a team of several research assistants, PhD candidates and PostDocs have been building up a German FrameNet and Constructicon since 2015. The aim is to create a freely accessible resource, based on the Berkeley FrameNet Constructicon, in which (families of) grammatical constructions are systematically analysed in formal, semantic, functional and pragmatic terms and prepared in a structured way.
A constructicon is a structured database of empirically recorded grammatical constructions (form-meaning pairs of different degrees of abstraction), in which linguistic peculiarities of individual constructions as well as relations to neighbouring constructions are documented. Following the corpus extraction and preparation, the analysis process comprises four modules:

• Parsing pipeline (TreeTagger, BerkeleyParser): automatic annotation of phrase types (PT) and grammatical functions (GF) with the possibility to select between created tag sets or to define new tag sets in which the TIGER categories are transferred.
• Annotation Pipeline (AnnotationTool / WebAnno): Semantic annotation of the construction elements (CE) of the target constructions.
• Construction Analyzer: automatic creation of annotated sample sentences, optionally with bracket annotations and/or colored markings, determination of the realization patterns of a construction and attested syntactic realization of each construction element.
• Construction: Repository of construction entries (including annotated data), in which the analysed and interpreted constructions are systematically prepared and explained in an accessible way.

The German Constructicon is designed as a participatory project: Linguists working in construction grammar can publish their results on constructions of German as construction entries and thus contribute to the construction grammatical description of German. Starting with the Berkeley FrameNet prototype and the frames documented for English, also a FrameNet resource for German is currently being developed. The long-term goal is to establish a "German FrameNet" that covers the basic vocabulary of German.