This book is a collection of articles on Japanese grammars written in a framework broadly construed as constraint-based. Having evolved from a progress report on the Japanese Phrase Structure Grammar (JPSG) project, it implements ideas from recent developments in phrase structure grammar formalism, such as Head-drive Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). Part I gives an overview of JPSG, introducing fundamental assumptions and discussing mostly syntactic and semantic aspects of Japanese in the constraint-based formalism, as well as the implementation of a parser based on the grammar. The papers in...
This book is a collection of articles on Japanese grammars written in a framework broadly construed as constraint-based. Having evolved from a progres...