Topics in Constraint-Based Grammar of Japanese

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Takao Gunji, Kôiti Hasida

      Pages 1-14

3. Recent Developments in JPSG

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Relative Clauses and Adnominal Clauses

      • Hidetosi Sirai, Takao Gunji

      Pages 17-38

   3. Measurement and Quantification

      • Takao Gunji, Kôiti Hasida

      Pages 39-79

   4. The Temporal System in Japanese

      • Yoshiyuki Igarashi, Takao Gunji

      Pages 81-97

   5. An Overview of the JPSG Phonology

      • Mitinao Francis Matui

      Pages 99-140

   6. Implementation

      • Hiroshi Tsuda, Kôiti Hasida

      Pages 141-155

4. Related Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. The Temporal Interpretation of Japanese Subordinate Clauses

      • Yoshiyuki Igarashi

      Pages 159-174

   3. Japanese Conditionals and Cost of Utterance

      • Ken-Ichiro Shirai

      Pages 175-203

   4. Coreference Analysis Based on Causality Relations

      • Hiroshi Nakagawa

      Pages 205-218

   5. A Semantic Analysis of Hierarchical Clause Structure in Japanese

      • Toshiyuki Tonoike, Hiroshi Sano

      Pages 219-251

5. Back Matter

   Pages 253-267

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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 book has evolved from a technical memo that was a progress report on the Japanese phrase structure grammar (JPSG) project, which was conducted as an activity of the JPSG Working Group at ICOT (Institute for New-Generation Computing Technology) from 1984 to 1992. JPSG implements ideas from recent developments in phrase structure grammar formalism, such as head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG), (see Pollard & Sag 1987, 1994) as applied to the Japanese language. The main goal of this project was to state various grammatical regularities exhibited in natural language in general (and in Japanese in particular) as a set of local constraints. The book is organized in two parts. Part I gives an overview of developments in our framework after the publication of Gunji (1987), introducing our fundamental assumptions as well as discussing various aspects of Japanese in the constraint­ based formalism and summarizing discussions of the JPSG Working Group during the above-mentioned period. Naturally, in the period after the publication of the above book, our discussion was centered on topics not covered in the book.

• Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar
• Japanese
• Tempora
• grammar
• pronominal
• quantifiers
• relative clauses
• semantic
• semantic analysis
• syntactic

• Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

  Takao Gunji

• Electrotechnical Laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan

  Kôiti Hasida

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