Head-Initial Constructions in Japanese
Japanese is often taken to be strictly head-final in its syntax. In our work on a broad-coverage, precision implemented HPSG for Japanese, we have found that while this is generally true, there are nonetheless a few minor exceptions to the broad trend. In this paper, we describe the grammar engineering project, present the exceptions we have found, and conclude that this kind of phenomenon motivates on the one hand the HPSG type hierarchical approach which allows for the statement of both broad generalizations and exceptions to those generalizations and on the other hand the usefulness of grammar engineering as a means of testing linguistic hypotheses.
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| Author: | Melanie Siegel, Emily M. Bender |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-236691 |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the HPSG04 Conference |
| Publisher: | CSLI Publications |
| Place of publication: | Stanford |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 21.12.2011 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2004 |
| Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
| Contributing Corporation: | Center for Computational Linguistics Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
| SWD-Keyword: | Computerlinguistik; Japanisch |
| Pagenumber: | 17 |
| Institutes: | Extern |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 418 Standardsprache; Angewandte Linguistik |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Computerlinguistik / Computational linguistics |
| Licence (German): |  Veröffentlichungsvertrag für Publikationen ohne Print on Demand |
