Similarities and differences among semantic behaviors of Japanese adnominal constituents
Kyoko Kanzaki, Qing Ma, Hitoshi Isahara · 2000
This paper treats the classification of the semantic functions performed by adnominal constituents in Japanese, where many parts of speech act as adnominal constituents. In order to establish a formal treatment of the semantic roles, the similarities and differences among adnominal constituents, i.e. adjectives and "noun + NO (in English "of + noun")" structures, which have a broad range of semantic functions, are discussed. This paper also proposes an objective method of classifying these constructs using a large amount of linguistic data. The feasibility of this was verified with a self-organizing semantic map based on a neural network model.