Language Models Learn Constructional Semantics, Not To Mention Syntax: Investigating LM Understanding of Paired-Focus Constructions

Wesley Scivetti, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Nathan Schneider 0001, Kanishka Misra, Leonie Weissweiler. Language Models Learn Constructional Semantics, Not To Mention Syntax: Investigating LM Understanding of Paired-Focus Constructions. In Claire Bonial, Yevgeni Berzak, editors, Proceedings of the 30th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, CoNLL 2026, San Diego, California, USA, July 3-4, 2026. pages 250-267, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2026. [doi]

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