Open AccessDivergence in expressing definiteness between Mandarin and Cantonese
Author(s) -
Joanna Ut-Seong Sio,
Sanghoun Song
Publication year - 2015
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.2015.11
Subject(s) - definiteness , mandarin chinese , linguistics , head driven phrase structure grammar , divergence (linguistics) , determiner phrase , computer science , semantics (computer science) , variation (astronomy) , recursion (computer science) , phrase , grammar , natural language processing , mathematics , artificial intelligence , phrase structure rules , philosophy , programming language , physics , astrophysics
In this paper, we model the dialectal variation in the expression of definiteness in Mandarin and Cantonese adopting the Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) framework (Pollard & Sag, 1994) and Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS) (Copestake et al., 2005).