THE CHINESE FAMILY: ORGANIZATION, NAMES, AND KINSHIP TERMS

An Ontological Analysis of Japanese and Chinese Kinship Terms

Most languages have some expressions to refer to family members (e.g., those referring to ‘father,’ ‘brother,’ ‘uncle,’ etc.). In this paper, we will provide an analysis of Japanese and Chinese kinship terms, under a framework whose representational system has an ontological nature. It will be shown that this framework is effective not only in figuring out similarities and differences among the...

Kinship Expressions and Terms

All languages have expressions that can be glossed ‘father,’ ‘wife,’ ‘brother-in-law,’ etc., covering consanguineal, spousal, and affinal categories. However, from the beginning of serious cross-cultural study, it has been apparent that societies differ in the kinship categories used. To facilitate comparison, an ‘etic grid’ is necessary; namely, an open-ended universe of kin-types, such as ‘fa...

African Family and Kinship

What Can the Acquisition of Proper Names and Kinship Terms Tell us about the Acquisition of the DP?

This paper is concerned with the acquisition of structures involving Proper Names (PN) and Kinship Terms (KT). Building on ideas from Radford (1990) and Pine & Martindale (1996), and based on data on the acquisition of structures involving PNs and KTs in Modern Greek (MG), I will argue that the acquisition of the functional projection DP does not take place in an all or nothing fashion, but rat...

Knowledge Extraction For Identification Of Chinese Organization Names

In this paper, a knowledge extraction process was proposed to extract the knowledge for identifying Chinese organization names. The knowledge extraction process utilizes the structure property, statistical property as well as partial linguistic knowledge of the organization names to extract new organizations from domain texts. The knowledge extraction processes were experimented on large amount...