Type grammar meets Japanese particles

摘要

This paper presents a computational analysis within the framework of a type grammar for the treatment of Japanese particles. In Japanese, particles express a number of functional relations; they follow a word to indicate its relationship to other words in a sentence, and/or give that word a particular meaning. We explain our parsing technique and discuss about various constructions using case particles and focus particles. We show how troublesome phenomena such as scrambling and omission of case particles are treated.