Processing Three Types of Korean Cleft Constructions in a Typed Feature Structure Grammar
Jong‐Bok Kim, 양재형 · 인지과학 · 2009
The expression KES, one of the most commonly used words in the Korean language, has various usages. This expression is also used to express English-like cleft constructions. Korean seems to employ at least three different types of cleft constructions: predicational, identificational, and eventual. The paper tries to provide a constraint-based analysis of these three types of Korean cleft constructions and implement the analysis in the LKB (Linguistic Knowledge Building) system to check the feasibility of the analysis. In particular, the paper shows how a typed featture structure grammat, couched upon HPSG, can provide a robust basis for parsing Korean cleft constructions.