Open AccessA unified approach to questions, quantifiers, and coordination in Japanese
Author(s) -
Katsuaki Nakanishi
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
proceedings of the international conference on head-driven phrase structure grammar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1535-1793
DOI - 10.21248/hpsg.2006.15
Subject(s) - parallelism (grammar) , computer science , existentialism , linguistics , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , philosophy , epistemology , parallel computing
The Japanese language is one of the languages where universal andexistential quantification are expressed using wh-words with theconjunctive and disjunctive particles, respectively. In this paper,inspired by the syntactic and semantic parallelism found in Japanesebetween quantification, coordination, and question, we seek to analyzethese constructions in a unified fashion. We investigate variousphenomena of these constructions and show how these three constructionscan be uniformly analyzed as cases where abstracted arguments arequestioned or quantified for verbs. We then present an HPSGformalization of the analysis.