Research and Suggested Reading

This page lists both original research involving the G-FOL and related work on frames and constructions, including how to apply these concepts in language pedagogy.

The German Frame-Semantic Online Lexicon (G-FOL)

• 2022. Boas, Hans C. (ed.). Directions for Pedagogical Construction Grammar. Learning and Teaching (with) Constructions. Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter. x + 365 pp. https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783110746723/html
• 2022. Boas, Hans C. From Construction Grammar(s) to Pedagogical Construction Grammar. In H.C. Boas (ed.), Directions for Pedagogical Construction Grammar. Learning and Teaching (with) Constructions, 3-43. Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2022/02/Boas_Intro_PedCxG_2022.pdf
• 2022. Gemmell Hudson, Maggie. Teaching Second Year German Using Frames and Constructions. In H.C. Boas (ed.), Directions for Pedagogical Construction Grammar. Learning and Teaching (with) Constructions, 265-304. Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter.
• 2020. Lorenz, Alexander, Crane, Cori, Benjamins, John, and Hans C. Boas. L2 German Learners’ Perceptions and Use of an Online Semantic Frame-Based Dictionary. Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German 53.2, 191-209. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2020/09/Lorenzetal-Unterrichtspraxis_G-FOL-to_appear2020.pdf
• 2016. Boas, Hans C., Dux, Ryan, and Alexander Ziem. Frames and constructions in an online learner’s dictionary of German. In S. De Knop and Gaetanelle Guilquin (eds.), Applied Construction Grammar, 303-326. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2016/09/Boas-et-al.-2016.pdf
• 2013. Boas, Hans C. and Ryan Dux. “Semantic frames for foreign-language education: Towards a German frame-based dictionary.” Veridas On-Line 1/2013, 81-100. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2011/10/Boas-Dux-2013-uncorrectedproofs.pdf
• 2011. Atzler, Judith. Twist in the list: Frame Semantics as a vocabulary teaching and learning tool. Ph.D. Dissertation. The University of Texas at Austin. Austin, TX. 250p. http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-2752/ATZLER-DISSERTATION.pdf

Applying Frame Semantics to Language Teaching

• 2022. Boas, Hans C. (ed.). Directions for Pedagogical Construction Grammar. Learning and Teaching (with) Constructions. Berlin / Boston: De Gruyter. x + 365 pp. https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783110746723/html
• 2022. Boas, Hans C. From Construction Grammar(s) to Pedagogical Construction Grammar. In H.C. Boas (ed.), Directions for Pedagogical Construction Grammar. Learning and Teaching (with) Constructions, 3-43. Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2022/02/Boas_Intro_PedCxG_2022.pdf
• 2022. Gemmell Hudson, Maggie. Teaching Second Year German Using Frames and Constructions. In H.C. Boas (ed.), Directions for Pedagogical Construction Grammar. Learning and Teaching (with) Constructions, 265-304. Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter.
• 2014. Ostermann, Carolin. Frame Semantics and Learner’s Dictionaries: Frame Example Sections as a New Dictionary Feature. In: Proceedings of the XVI EURALEX International Congress: The User in Focus, 1153-1162. Bolzano/Bolzen, Italy. http://www.euralex.org/elx_proceedings/Euralex2014/euralex_2014_090_p_1153.pdf
• 2012. Friberg Heppin, Karin; Friberg, Håkan. Using FrameNet in Communicative Language Teaching. In: Proceedings of the 15th EURALEX International Congress. Oslo, 640-647. http://www.euralex.org/elx_proceedings/Euralex2012/pp640-647%20Heppin%20and%20Friberg.pdf
• 2011. Ziem, Alexander. Cognitive science meets language pedagogy. In: Marcus Callies, Wolfram R. Keller, and Astrid Lohöfer (eds.), Bi-Directionality in the Cognitive Sciences, 249-277. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. https://books.google.com/books?id=GR9zAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Frame Semantics and Computational Approaches

• 2003. Huang, Li-Szu. Resolving word sense ambiguity of polysemous words in a second language. 174p. Dissertation (Doctor of Foreign Language Education) – University of Texas at Austin. Austin, TX. https://search.lib.utexas.edu/permalink/01UTAU_INST/be14ds/alma991056772589706011
• 2002. Boas, Hans C. “Bilingual FrameNet Dictionaries for Machine Translation,” in: González Rodríguez, M., and C. Paz Suárez Araujo (eds.), Proceedings of the Third  International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Las Palmas, Spain. Vol. IV, 1364 – 1371. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2011/02/BOAS-LREC.pdf
• 1997. Lowe, John B., Baker, Collin F., and Charles J. Fillmore. A Frame-semantic Approach to Semantic Annotation. In: Proceedings of the SIGLEX Workshop on Tagging Text with Lexical Semantics: Why, What, and How?, 18-24. Washington D.C. https://aclanthology.org/W97-0204.pdf

Frame Semantics and FrameNet

• 2021. Boas, Hans C. Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics. In X. Wen & R.J. Taylor (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, 43-77. New York/London: Routledge. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2021/07/Boas-CxG-and-FS-2021-DRAFT.pdf
• 2020. Boas, Hans C. A roadmap for determining the universal status of semantic frames. In R. Enghels, B. Defrancq, and M. Jansegers (eds.), New Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. 21-52. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2020/09/Boas_2020_Universal_frames_Uncorrected_proofs.pdf
• 2019. Boas, Hans C. Zur methodologischen Grundlage der empirischen Konstruktikographie. In D. Czicza, V. Dekalo, and G. Diewald (eds.), Konstruktionsgrammatik VI. Varianz in der konstruktionalen Schematizität. Tübingen: Stauffenburg. 237-263. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2019/08/Boas_2019_Uncorrected-proofs.pdf
• 2018. Boas, Hans C. Zur Klassifizierung von Konstruktionen zwischen ‘Lexikon’und ‘Grammatik.’ In S. Engelberg, H. Lobin, K. Steyer, and S. Wolfer (eds.), Wortschätze. Dynamik, Muster, Komplexität. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. 33-50. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2018/05/Boas-2018-IDS-Klassifikation.pdf
• 2018. Boas, Hans C. and Alexander Ziem (eds.). Constructional Approaches to Syntactic Structures in German. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. viii+453pp.
• 2018. Boas, Hans C. and Alexander Ziem. Approaching German syntax from a constructionist perspective. In Boas, H.C. & A. Ziem (eds.), Constructional Approaches to Syntactic Structures in German. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. 1-46. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2018/07/Boas_Ziem_Intro_proofs_2018.pdf
• 2018. Boas, Hans C. and Alexander Ziem. Constructing a Constructicon for German: Empirical, theoretical, and methodological issues. In B. Lyngfelt, L. Borin, K. Ohara, & T. Timponi Torrent (eds.), Constructicography: Constructicon development across languages. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 183 -228. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2018/07/Boas-and-Ziem-2018-Constructicography.pdf
• 2017. Boas, Hans C. Computational Resources: FrameNet and Constructicon. In B. Dancygier (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 549-573. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2017/06/Proofs-Boas-2017.pdf
• 2017. Ziem, Alexander and Hans C. Boas. Towards a Constructicon for German. In Proceedings of the AAAI 2017 Spring Symposium on Computational Construction Grammar and Natural Language Understanding. Technical Report SS-17-02, Stanford University. 274-277. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2017/04/Ziem-Boas-AAAI-2017.pdf
• 2017. Boas, Hans C. What you see is not what you get: Capturing the meaning of missing words with Frame Semantics. In Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistics Society 52. 53-70. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2017/12/Boas_CLS_2017.pdf
• 2017. Ruppenhofer, Josef, Hans C. Boas, and Collin F. Baker. FrameNet. In P. A. Fuertes-Olivera (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Lexicography. New York: Routledge. 383-398. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2017/12/RuppenhoferBoasBaker_2017_Proofs.pdf
• 2017. Boas, Hans C. and Ryan Dux. From the past into the present: From case frames to semantic frames. In Linguistics Vanguard 2017. 1-14. DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2016-0003. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2017/12/Boas-Dux-2017-draft-version.pdf
• 2016. Boas, Hans C. 2016. Frames and constructions for the study of oral poetics. In M. Antovic and C. Pagan Canovas (eds.), Oral Poetics and Cognitive Science, 99-124. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2016/09/Boas-2016-OralPoetics.pdf
• 2014. Boas, Hans C. “Zur Architektur einer konstruktionsbasierten Grammatik des Deutschen.” In: Lasch, Alexander & Ziem, Alexander (Hrsg.): Grammatik als Netzwerk von Konstruktionen. Sprachwissen im Fokus der Konstruktionsgrammatik (= Sprache und Wissen 15). Berlin: de Gruyter. 37-63. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2014/05/Beitrag-Boas-1.pdf
• 2014. Ziem, Alexander, Boas, Hans C., and Josef Ruppenhofer. “Grammatische Konstruktionen und semantische Frames fuer die Textanalyse,” In: J. Hagemann and S. Staffeldt (eds.), Syntaxtheorien. Analysen im Vergleich. Tuebingen: Stauffenburg. 297-333. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2014/05/Ziem-et-al-final-proofs.pdf
• 2014. Boas, Hans d. and Francisco Gonzálvez-García (eds.) Romance Perspectives on Construction Grammar. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
• 2014. Boas, Hans C. and Francisco Gonzálvez-García. “Applying constructional concepts to Romance languages.” In: H.C. Boas and Francisco Gonzálvez-García (eds.), Romance Perspectives on Construction Grammar. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 1-36. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2014/09/Boas_Gonzalvez_Garcia-2014.pdf
• 2013. Boas, Hans C. “Cognitive Construction Grammar.” In: T. Hoffmann and G. Trousdale (eds.),The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 233-254. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2011/02/CCxG-October22-2010.pdf
• 2013. Boas, Hans C. “Wie viel Wissen steckt in Woerterbuechern? Eine frame-semantische Perspektive.” Zeitschrift fuer Angewandte Linguistik 57, 75-97. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2011/10/PDF14075804-uncorrected-proofs.pdf
• 2013. Boas, Hans C. “Frame Semantics and translation.” In: A. Rojo and I. Ibarretxte-Antunano (eds.), Cognitive Linguistics and Translation. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 125-158. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2011/10/Boas_2013_FS_Translation.pdf
• 2013. Ruppenhofer, Josef, Hans C. Boas, and Collin Baker. “The FrameNet approach to relating syntax and semantics.” In: R.H. Gouws, U. Heid, W. Schweickard, and H.E. Wiegand (eds.), Dictionaries. An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography.  Berlin/New York: De Gruyter/Mouton. 1320-1329. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2014/05/Ruppenhofer_Boas_Baker_2013_HSK_FrameNet.pdf
• 2012. Boas, Hans C. and Ivan A. Sag (eds.), Sign-based Construction Grammar. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
• 2012. Sag, Ivan A., Boas, Hans C., and Paul Kay. “Introducing Sign-based Construction Grammar.” In: H.C. Boas and I.A. Sag (eds.), Sign-based Construction Grammar. Stanford: CSLI Publications. 1-30. http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/pdf/BoasSag-intro.pdf
• 2012. Baker, Collin F. FrameNet, current collaborations and future goals. Language Resources & Evaluation, vol. 46, p. 269–286.
• 2012. Busse, Dietrich. Frame-Semantik. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.  888p.
• 2011. Boas, Hans C. “A frame-semantic approach to syntactic alternations with build-verbs”. In: Guerrero Medina, P. (ed.), Morphosyntactic alternations in English. London: Equinox. 207-234. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2011/02/Boas-alternations-2011.pdf
• 2011. Boas, Hans C. “Constructing parallel lexicon fragments based on English FrameNet entries: Semantic and syntactic issues.” In: H. Hedeland, T. Schmidt, and K. Woerner (eds.), Multilingual Resources and Multilingual Applications. Proceedings of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL) 2011, Hamburg. University of Hamburg: Center for Language Corpora. 9-18. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2011/10/2011-Boas-Parallel-FrameNets.pdf
• 2010. Boas, Hans C. (ed.) Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
• 2010. Boas, Hans C. “Comparing constructions across languages.” In: Boas, H.C. (ed.) Contrastive Studies in Construction Grammar. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 1-20. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2011/02/Boas_2010_contrastive_CxG.pdf
• 2009. Fillmore, Charles J. and Collin Baker. A frames approach to semantic analysis. In: Heine, B. & Heiko, N. (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis, 313-339. New York: The Oxford University Press. http://lingo.stanford.edu/sag/papers/Fillmore-Baker-2011.pdf
• 2008. Ziem, Alexander. Frames und sprachliches Wissen. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
• 2008. Boas, Hans C. “Towards a frame-constructional approach to verb classification,” in: Eulalia Sosa Acevedo and Francisco José Cortés Rodríguez (eds.), Grammar, Constructions, and Interfaces. Special Issue of Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 57, 17-48. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2011/02/Boas_2008c_Frame-constructional-approach.pdf
• 2006. Boas, Hans C. “A frame-semantic approach to identifying syntactically relevant elements of meaning,” in: Steiner, P., Boas H.C., and S. Schierholz (eds.), Contrastive Studies and Valency. Studies in Honor of Hans Ulrich Boas. Frankfurt/New York. 119-149. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2011/02/BOAS-2006.pdf
• 2005. Boas, Hans C. “From Theory to Practice: Frame Semantics and the Design of FrameNet,” in: Langer, S. and D. Schnorbusch (eds.), Semantik im Lexikon. Tübingen: Narr. 129-160. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2011/02/Boas_2005_FromTheoryToPractice.pdf
• 2005. Boas, Hans C. “Semantic Frames as Interlingual Representations for Multilingual Lexical Databases”.  International Journal of Lexicography 18(4), 445-478. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2011/02/Boas_Multilingual_FrameNets_2005.pdf
• 2005. Fried, Mirjam, and Hans C. Boas (eds.), Grammatical Constructions: Back to the Roots.Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: Benjamins.
• 2004. Bailey, Mathew, Boas Hans C., Eubank, Eric, Kelton, Kelton, Kishi, Coco, Lippmann, Jane, Raizen, Esther, Rhodes, Suzanne, TenBarge, Joe, Wilbur, Judythe. “Technology-based Language and Culture Projects at the University of Texas at Austin,” , in: Saito Abbott, Y., R. Donovan, and T. Abbott (eds.), Emerging Technologies in Teaching Language and Cultures. San Diego: LARC Press, San Diego State University. 363-381. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2011/02/NMC_paper_final.pdf
• 2003. Fillmore, Charles J., Johnson, Christopher R. and Miriam R.L. Petruck. Background to FrameNet. International Journal of Lexicography, vol. 16, n. 3, 235-251.
• 2003. Fillmore, Charles J., Petruck, Miriam R.L., Ruppenhofer, Josef and Abby Wright. FrameNet in action: The case of Attaching. International Journal of Lexicography, vol. 16 n. 3, 297-333.
• 2000. Fillmore, Charles J. and Beryl T. S. Atkins. Describing Polysemy: The Case of ‘Crawl’. In: Yael Ravin and Claudia Laecock, C. (eds.) Polysemy, 91-110. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• 1998. Baker, Collin F., Fillmore, Charles J., and John B. Lowe. The Berkeley FrameNet Project.  In: COLING-ACL '98: Proceedings of the Conference, 86-90. Montreal, Canada. http://aclweb.org/anthology/P/P98/P98-1013.pdf
• 1996. Petruck, Miriam R.L. Frame Semantics. In: Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert, and Chris Bulcaen (eds.). Handbook of Pragmatics, 1-13. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Frame Semantics Across Languages

• 2009. Boas, Hans C. (ed.). Multilingual FrameNets in Computational Lexicography: Methods and Applications.
• 2009. Boas, Hans C. “Recent trends in multilingual computational lexicography,” in: Boas, Hans C. (ed.). Multilingual FrameNets in Computational Lexicography: Methods and Applications. 1–26. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2011/02/Boas_2009e_Trends_in_Multl_Lexicography.pdf
• 2009. Boas, Hans C. “Semantic frames as interlingual representations for multilingual lexical databases,” in: Boas, Hans C. (ed.). Multilingual FrameNets in Computational Lexicography: Methods and Applications, 59–100. http://sites.la.utexas.edu/hcb/files/2011/02/Boas_2009f_Frames_Interlingual_Repr.pdf