Topics in Constraint-Based Grammar of Japanese

This collection of papers reports our attempt to sketch how Japanese grammar can be represented in a constraint-based formalism. Our first attempt of this nature appeared a decade ago as Japanese Phrase Structure Grammar (Gunji 1987) and in several papers following the publication of the book. This...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gunji, T. (Editor), Hasida, K. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1999, 1999
Edition:1st ed. 1999
Series:Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Constraint-Based Grammars
  • 1.2 Feature Structure
  • 1.3 Organization of the Book
  • I Recent Developments in JPSG
  • 2 Relative Clauses and Adnominal Clauses
  • 3 Measurement and Quantification
  • 4 The Temporal System in Japanese
  • 5 An Overview of the JPSG Phonology
  • 6 Implementation
  • II Related Issues
  • 7 The Temporal Interpretation of Japanese Subordinate Clauses
  • 8 Japanese Conditionals and Cost of Utterance
  • 9 Coreference Analysis Based on Causality Relations
  • 10 A Semantic Analysis of Hierarchical Clause Structure in Japanese
  • Appendix: Details of the four levels and related lexical items
  • A.1 Level A
  • A.2 Leve B
  • A.3 Level C
  • A.4 Level D
  • A.5 Related Phenomena
  • References