@inproceedings{e987d150ce25482a800d8852f4acbdd4,
title = "Towards establishing a hierarchy in the Japanese sentence structure",
abstract = "The Minami Hierarchy or the four-layers of embeddings within Japanese sentences has been known to give a convincing account of heterogeneous linguistic data in Japanese Grammar. However, the categorization of sentence constituents has faced serious problems. In this paper, we illustrate that the hierarchical sentential structure is on the whole tenable and attempt to represent it with Phrase Structure Grammar rules. The result is a realization of surface syntactic structure information that can serve as input to Scope Control Theory, a routine of interpretation or semantic evaluation that requires the generalizations of Minami's hypothesis to hold true for evaluation to successfully complete.",
keywords = "Hierarchy, Japanese, Semantic evaluation, Sentence structure, Surface syntax",
author = "Kei Yoshimoto and Chidori Nakamura and Alastair Butler",
year = "2009",
month = dec,
day = "1",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789624423198",
series = "PACLIC 23 - Proceedings of the 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation",
pages = "875--882",
booktitle = "PACLIC 23 - Proceedings of the 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation",
note = "23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 23 ; Conference date: 03-12-2009 Through 05-12-2009",
}