Proceedings of the Korean Society for Language and Information Conference (한국언어정보학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2007.11a
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- Pages.365-374
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- 2007
Case, Coordination, and Information Structure in Japanese
- Ohtani, Akira (School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh) ;
- Steedman, Mark (Faculty of Informatics, Osaka Gakuin University)
- Published : 2007.11.01
Abstract
This paper investigates the nature of Japanese argument cluster (Steedman 2000b). Based on Combinatory Categorial Grammar, a type-raising analysis of case particles which captures some aspects of the information structure in Japanese is discussed, including contrastive interpretation of coordination, wh-constructions, and some theme and rheme-related grammatical phenomena. These observations offer further support for the study of syntax, semantics, and phonology interface and the earlier analysis of English information structure.
Keywords
- argument cluster;
- Japanese case particles;
- information structure;
- Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG);
- coordination;
- wh-constructions;
- multiple-ga;
- theme;
- rheme