A-not-a questions in Mandarin Chinese : an HPSG account
In this paper, I look at a-not-a questions in Mandarin Chinese, and create an account based on the framework of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) and Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS). While the a-not-a structure has seen extensive research in the past decades, they have largely been movem...
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| description | In this paper, I look at a-not-a questions in Mandarin Chinese, and create an account based on the framework of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) and Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS). While the a-not-a structure has seen extensive research in the past decades, they have largely been movement-based. Thus, this paper attempts to provide a non-movement but constraint-based HPSG/MRS account, which has thus far not been performed. Secondly, I have also begun initial implementation of said account into the HPSG-based Zhong [|] computational grammar for Chinese. While the basic forms of the a-not-a structure were accounted for and implemented, it was found that limitations in the system and formalisation prevented VP-not-VP questions from being successfully implemented. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/627412019-12-10T11:23:48Z A-not-a questions in Mandarin Chinese : an HPSG account Wang, Wenjie Francis Bond School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Syntax In this paper, I look at a-not-a questions in Mandarin Chinese, and create an account based on the framework of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) and Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS). While the a-not-a structure has seen extensive research in the past decades, they have largely been movement-based. Thus, this paper attempts to provide a non-movement but constraint-based HPSG/MRS account, which has thus far not been performed. Secondly, I have also begun initial implementation of said account into the HPSG-based Zhong [|] computational grammar for Chinese. While the basic forms of the a-not-a structure were accounted for and implemented, it was found that limitations in the system and formalisation prevented VP-not-VP questions from being successfully implemented. Bachelor of Arts 2015-04-28T06:35:53Z 2015-04-28T06:35:53Z 2015 2015 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62741 en Nanyang Technological University 51 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Syntax Wang, Wenjie A-not-a questions in Mandarin Chinese : an HPSG account |
| title | A-not-a questions in Mandarin Chinese : an HPSG account |
| title_full | A-not-a questions in Mandarin Chinese : an HPSG account |
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| title_full_unstemmed | A-not-a questions in Mandarin Chinese : an HPSG account |
| title_short | A-not-a questions in Mandarin Chinese : an HPSG account |
| title_sort | a not a questions in mandarin chinese an hpsg account |
| topic | DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Syntax |
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