Towards Establishing a Hierarchy in the Japanese Sentence Structure
Kei Yoshimoto, Chidori Nakamura, Alastair Butler · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 2009
The Minami Hierarchy or the four-layers of embeddings within Japanese sen- tences has been known to give a convincing account of heterogeneous linguistic data in Japanese Grammar. However, the categorization of sentence constituents has faced serious problems. In this paper, we illustrate that the hierarchical sentential structure is on the whole tenable and attempt to represent it with Phrase Structure Grammar rules. The result is a re- alization of surface syntactic structure information that can serve as input to Scope Control Theory, a routine of interpretation or semantic evaluation that requires the generalizations of Minami's hypothesis to hold true for evaluation to successfully complete.