Open AccessBuilding Zhong, a Chinese HPSG shared-grammar
Author(s) -
Zhenzhen Fan,
Sanghoun Song,
Francis Bond
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.2015.6
Subject(s) - reduplication , head driven phrase structure grammar , computer science , lexicon , linguistics , natural language processing , grammar , artificial intelligence , semantic interpretation , interpretation (philosophy) , object (grammar) , programming language , philosophy
This paper describes some of our attempts in extending Zhong, a Chinese HPSG shared-grammar. New analyses for two Chinese specific phenomena, reduplication and the SUO-DE structure, are introduced. The analysis of reduplication uses lexical rules to capture both the syntactic and semantic properties (amplification in adjectives and diminishing in verbs). Words showing non-productive reduplication are entered in the lexicon, and the semantic relations will be captured in an external resource (the Chinese Open Wordnet). The SUO-DE structure constrains the meanings of relative clauses to a gapped-object interpretation.