@inproceedings{van-trijp-2025-rethinking,
    title = "Rethinking Linguistic Structures as Dynamic Tensegrities",
    author = "van Trijp, Remi",
    editor = "Bonial, Claire  and
      Torgbi, Melissa  and
      Weissweiler, Leonie  and
      Blodgett, Austin  and
      Beuls, Katrien  and
      Van Eecke, Paul  and
      Tayyar Madabushi, Harish",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Construction Grammars and NLP",
    month = sep,
    year = "2025",
    address = {D{\"u}sseldorf, Germany},
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/iwcs-25-ingestion/2025.cxgsnlp-1.12/",
    pages = "120--129",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-318-0",
    abstract = "Constructional approaches to language have evolved from rigid tree-based representations to framing constructions as flexible, multidimensional pairings of form and function. However, it remains unclear how to formalize this conceptual shift in ways that are both computationally scalable and scientifically insightful. This paper proposes \textit{dynamic tensegrity} {--} a term derived from ``tensile integrity'' {--} as a novel architecture metaphor for modelling linguistic form. It argues that linguistic structure emerges from dynamically evolving networks of constraint-based tensions rather than fixed hierarchies. The paper explores the theoretical consequences of this view, supplemented with a proof-of-concept implementation in Fluid Construction Grammar, demonstrating how a tensegrity-inspired approach can support robustness and adaptivity in language processing."
}