tailieunhanh - Making Sense of Japanese Relative Clause Constructions

MAKING SENSE hấp dẫn, hot, nổi bật với các dự kiện Siêu Động Đất, Sóng Thần Ở Nhật Bản - Những Câu Chuyện Từ Thảm Họa . Sự Chờ Đợi Của Lương Thần. | Making Sense of Japanese Relative Clause Constructions Timothy Baldwin CSLI Stanford University Stanford CA 94305 UsA tbaldwin@ Abstract We apply the decision tree learner in interpreting Japanese relative clause constructions based around shallow syntactic and semantic processing. In parameterising data for use with we propose and test various means of reducing intra-clausal interpretational ambiguity and cross indexing the overall analysis of cosubordinated relative clause constructions. We additionally investigate the disambiguating effect of the different parameter types used and establish upper bounds for the task. 1 Introduction Japanese relative clause constructions have the general structure S NP and constitute a noun phrase. We will term the modifying S the relative clause the modified NP the head NP and the overall NP a relative clause construction or RCC. Example RCCs are 1 1 kino katta bosi yesterday bought hat the hat which bought yesterday 2 bosi-o katta riyu hat-ACC bought reason the reason bought a hat 3 taterareta yokutosi built next year the year after was built Different claims have been made as to the roles of syntax semantics and pragmatics or frame semantics in the construal of Japanese RCCs . Teramura 1975-78 Sirai and Gunji 1998 Matsumoto 1997 . We consider two basic syntactico-semantic selection processes to govern RCC construal selection of the relative clause by the head NP and selection of the head NP by the relative 1The following abbreviations are used in glosses NOM nominative ACC accusative PRES non-past and POT potential. is used to indicate zero anaphoric arguments. clause. These processes can be seen to be at play in the examples above in 1 the head verb of the relative clause selects for the head NP and a direct object case-slot gapping interpretation results . bosi is the direct object of katta in 2 the head NP selects for the relative clause resulting in an attributive interpretation . bosi-o