Van Trijp Research Articles

Ensuring sustainability in sensory sciences

Ensuring sustainability in sensory sciences

Biomedical gastronomy in the interventions of smell and taste disorders in ‘altered eating’

Biomedical gastronomy in the interventions of smell and taste disorders in ‘altered eating’

Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Sign-Based Construction Grammar, and Fluid Construction Grammar

AbstractVan Trijp (2013,2014) claims that Sign-Based Construction Grammar (SBCG) and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) are fundamentally different from Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG). He claims that the former approaches are generative ones while the latter is a cognitive-functional one. I argue that it is not legitimate to draw these distinctions on the basis of what is done in FCG. Van Trijp claims that there are differences in the scientific model, the linguistic approach, formalization, the way constructions are seen, and in terms of processing. This paper discusses all these alleged differences. Van Trijp also claims that his cognitive-functional approach is superior in terms of completeness, explanatory adequacy, and theoretical parsimony. In order to facilitate a discussion and comparison, I introduce the reader to basic assumptions made in FCG and the analyses suggested by Van Trijp: I first deal with the representations that are used in FCG, talk about argument structure constructions, the combination operations fusion and merging that are used in FCG, I than discuss the analysis of nonlocal dependencies and show that the suggested FCG analysis is not explanatorily adequate since it is not descriptively adequate and that a full formalization of approaches with discontinuous constituents is not more parsimonious than existing HPSG analyses either. After the discussion of specific analyses, I then provide a detailed comparison of FCG and SBCG/HPSG and discuss questions like the competence/performance distinction, mathematical formalization vs. computer implementation, fuzziness and fluidity in grammars, and permissiveness of theories. I conclude that HPSG, SBCG, and FCG belong to the same family of theories and that all claims to the contrary are unjustified.

The Acquisition of Language: Evidence in Syntax

This paper aims to discuss the two main approaches to language acquisition and present the main ideas behind the nativist and the usage-based account. The concomitant argument between the two sides has been present in linguistics ever since the proposal of innateness was provided by the paradigm of mainstream generative grammar (Chomsky 1965). In order to contribute to the ongoing discussion, we will attempt to outline the main challenges that the both theoretical strands are faced with and provide an overview of syntactic evidence provided by linguists whose work was devoted to understanding the mechanisms of language acquisition. Our goal is to analyze the insights provided by the phenomena such as syntactic bootstrapping, poverty of the stimulus, multiple argument realizations and non-canonical syntactic constructions and argue that integrating these findings into a usage-based framework (Tomasello 2000, 2003 - 2009) or various instances of Construction Grammar (Goldberg 1995 - 1996, Fillmore Kay - Fillmore 1999, van Trijp 2016, Steels 2011, inter alia) provides a more plausible and comprehensive explanation of the processes responsible for language acquisition.

Argument structure constructions in a Natural Language Processing environment

This paper contributes to the field of computational Construction Grammar (cf. Steels, 2012; Van Trijp, 2011) by providing a linguistically oriented formalized treatment of argument structure constructions within the architecture of a multipurpose lexico-conceptual knowledge base for Natural Language Processing systems known as FunGramKB (Periñán, 2013). More concretely, we analyze three members of the family of the English resultative, namely, the resultative (e.g. He hammered the metal flat/into a flat sheet), the caused-motion construction (e.g. He shoved the canoe into the water) and the way construction (e.g. He fought his way free/to freedom), paying special attention to lexical–constructional integration variability. Thus, the present article offers a description of the format of constructional schemata in FunGramKB as machine-tractable representations of constructions and proposes a ‘splitting-like’ solution (à la Boas, 2003) to handle the mismatches resulting from lexical-constructional fusion. We finally argue that, in the case of FunGramKB, a feasible computational implementation must be based on constructional sub-types rather than on broad-scale constructions of the Goldbergian kind.

Markets, Marketing and Developing Countries: Where We Stand and Where We are Heading - Edited by Hans van Trijp and Paul Ingenbleek

Markets, Marketing and Developing Countries: Where We Stand and Where We are Heading - Edited by Hans van Trijp and Paul Ingenbleek

Reply to commentaries on: Van Kleef, Van Trijp, and Luning, ‘Consumer research in the early stages of new product development: a critical review of methods and techniques’

Reply to commentaries on: Van Kleef, Van Trijp, and Luning, ‘Consumer research in the early stages of new product development: a critical review of methods and techniques’

What we still need to learn about developing successful new products: a commentary on Van Kleef, Van Trijp, and Luning

What we still need to learn about developing successful new products: a commentary on Van Kleef, Van Trijp, and Luning

Consumer profiling and the new product development toolbox: a commentary on van Kleef, van Trijp, and Luning

Consumer profiling and the new product development toolbox: a commentary on van Kleef, van Trijp, and Luning

QUALITY IN THE MARKET - TECHNOLOGY PUSH VERSUS MARKET PULL

QUALITY IN THE MARKET - TECHNOLOGY PUSH VERSUS MARKET PULL

The application of OVERALS in marketing research : Dijksterhuis, G B, and van Trijp, H C M, 1995, “Positioneringderzoek op basis van (niet-) metrische data: OVERALS in het Marktonderzoek”, Recente Ontwikkelingen in het Marktonderzoek, Jaarboek van de Nederlandse Vereniging van Marktonderzoekers (The Netherlands), Issue 95/96, pp. 39–52

The application of OVERALS in marketing research : Dijksterhuis, G B, and van Trijp, H C M, 1995, “Positioneringderzoek op basis van (niet-) metrische data: OVERALS in het Marktonderzoek”, Recente Ontwikkelingen in het Marktonderzoek, Jaarboek van de Nederlandse Vereniging van Marktonderzoekers (The Netherlands), Issue 95/96, pp. 39–52

Quality guidance and quality formation

This paper presents an extension of the quality guidance model of Steenkamp and Van Trijp that includes consumer quality formation processes. Quality expectations and quality experiences are seen as antecedents of perceived overall product quality. The conceptual model is applied using LIS-REL to a data set on Danish butter cookies. Five plausible models of the relation between expectation, experience and perceived product quality are estimated. Finally one model is selected on the basis of three criteria: chi-square, RMSEA and AIC. The results show a model where expectations are indirectly related to perceived quality through experience.

Do High Food Marketing Costs Constrain Cash Crop Production? Evidence from Zimbabwe

Do High Food Marketing Costs Constrain Cash Crop Production? Evidence from Zimbabwe