Processing of information structure and floating quantifiers in japanese

  • Authors:

  • Kei Yoshimoto;Masahiro Kobayashi;Hiroaki Nakamura;Yoshiki Mori

  • Affiliations:

  • Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan;University Education Center, Tottori University, Tottori, Japan;Department of General Subjects, Japan Coast Guard Academy, Hiroshima, Japan;Institute of Linguistics and Literature, Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

  • Venue:
  • JSAI'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Floating quantifiers (FQs) in Japanese have mainly been discussed from the perspective of syntax, which leaves some essential context-dependent aspects of the phenomena unexplained. In this paper, we approach the issue by formalizing the incremental processing of information structure in Japanese sentences by Minimal Recursion Semantics and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar . The long-standing problem of asymmetry between the subject and object in terms of the quantification by a non-adjacent FQ is resolved by a self-contradictory context specification which is obtained by expanding the MRS formalism using the information packaging theory.