Speech Act Constructions in Universal Dependencies

Joakim Nivre; William Croft; André Coneglian

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Speech Act Constructions in Universal Dependencies

Joakim Nivre, William Croft, Andre Coneglian

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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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Volume:: Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026)
Month:: May
Year:: 2026
Address:: Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Editors:: Çağrı Çöltekin, Kaja Dobrovoljc
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Publisher:: ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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Pages:: 315–320
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External URL:: https://lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-ws-udw-29
DOI:: 10.63317/33mhbbgockfc
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Cite (ACL):: Joakim Nivre, William Croft, and Andre Coneglian. 2026. Speech Act Constructions in Universal Dependencies. In Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026), pages 315–320, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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[Speech Act Constructions in Universal Dependencies](https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.29/) (Nivre et al., UDW 2026)

Speech Act Constructions in Universal Dependencies (Nivre et al., UDW 2026)

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Joakim Nivre, William Croft, and Andre Coneglian. 2026. Speech Act Constructions in Universal Dependencies. In Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026), pages 315–320, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA).