Language and Information (한국언어정보학회지:언어와정보)
- Volume 7 Issue 1
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- Pages.1-22
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- 2003
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- 1226-7430(pISSN)
Analysis and Computational Processing of Quantifier Floating in Korean
양화사유동과 관련된 한국어의 분석과 전산처리
Abstract
Quantifier floating is one of the much studied phenomena in natural languages where quantifying expressions may appear in places other than their original prenominal one. Its presence is especially prominent in languages such as Korean that allow more or less free word order. We find that, in addition to what is described in the literature, there are other remarkable regularities in the way the language allows quantifiers to “float” with respect to various constructions including coordination, relative clauses, and embedded clauses. These regularities are captured syntactically in a combinatory categorial grammar (CCG) framework for Korean. We also show how to derive semantic representations for Korean quantifier floating in the same CCG framework.
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