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Japanese nominal-predicate sentences show an interesting distribution of distinct types of readings. In the literature, the so-called “Mapping Hypothesis has been considered to be a right approach to the current. However, the nature of the relation between syntactic configurations and types of the readings in question is relational, not functional as is implied by the hypothesis. In light of this, we will propose a constraint-based alternative analysis in which a syntactic configuration can be associated with more than one semantic representation as long as they conform to independently motivated information-structural constraints.
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Yabushita, K. (2006). An Information-Structural Analysis of the Readings for Nominal-Predicate Sentences in Japanese. In: Washio, T., Sakurai, A., Nakajima, K., Takeda, H., Tojo, S., Yokoo, M. (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4012. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11780496_13
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