Word Order and Clause Structure in Early Old Japanese*

Case , Word Order , Grammatical Function and Information Structure in Japanese

2 Acknowledgements I thank my professors and mentors Ralf Vogel and Miriam Butt. Ralf Vogel provided me constantly with support and encouragement. I benefited a lot from the discussions with him. He was the person who evoked my interest in syntax and OT and impressed me with his prompt and insightful analysis of linguistic data. Furthermore, I thank Miriam Butt for her professional comments and...

Word Order Doesn’t Matter: Relative Clause Production in English and Japanese

Comparatively little is known about how semantic properties (such as animacy) and syntactic properties (such as word order) affect production of complex sentences. Relative clauses were elicited using a picture description task that manipulated head noun animacy in both English (which has head-first relative clauses and Japanese (head-final relative clauses). Participants of both languages prod...

Word Order, Clause Union, and the Formal Machinery of Syntax

Chinese-Japanese Clause Alignment

Bi-text alignment is useful to many Natural Language Processing tasks such as machine translation, bilingual lexicography and word sense disambiguation. This paper presents a Chinese-Japanese alignment at the level of clause. After describing some characteristics in Chinese-Japanese bilingual texts, we first investigate some statistical properties of Chinese-Japanese bilingual corpus, including...

Word Order and Constituent Structure in German

No wonder you activities are, reading will be always needed. It is not only to fulfil the duties that you need to finish in deadline time. Reading will encourage your mind and thoughts. Of course, reading will greatly develop your experiences about everything. Reading word order and constituent structure in german is also a way as one of the collective books that gives many advantages. The adva...