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This paper presents an analysis of the interaction of scrambling and quantifier scope in Japanese, based on multimodal type logical grammar [5,6]. In developing the grammar of the language, we will make use of several modes. In particular, we will exploit the continuation mode as used in [2,7]. The concept deals with computational side effects and the evaluation order. After establishing the analysis of simple quantifier cases, we also discuss some morphologically related phenomena such as focus and split-QP construction [8,9], and show how they can be dealt with in our system.
The authors would like to thank Alastair Butler, Yusuke Kinoshita, Oleg Kiselyov, Ken Shan, Willemijn Vermaat, and two anonymous reviewers for valuable comments and discussions.
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Otake, R., Yoshimoto, K. (2008). A Multimodal Type Logical Grammar Analysis of Japanese: Word Order and Quantifier Scope. In: Satoh, K., Inokuchi, A., Nagao, K., Kawamura, T. (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4914. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78197-4_14
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