Open AccessSyntax and semantics of Korean numeral classifier constructions
Author(s) -
JongBok Kim,
Jaehyung Yang
Publication year - 2007
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.2007.10
Subject(s) - numeral system , computer science , parsing , head driven phrase structure grammar , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , syntax , robustness (evolution) , programming language , generative grammar , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
The so-called floating quantifier constructions in languages likeKorean display intriguing properties whose successful processing canprove the robustness of a parsing system. This paper shows that aconstraint-based analysis, in particular couched upon the frameworkof HPSG, can offer us an efficient way of analyzing theseconstructions together with proper semantic representations. It alsoshows how the analysis has been successfully implemented in the LKB(Linguistic Knowledge Building) system.