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This paper presents a new analysis of the discourse functions of Japanese particles wa and ga. Such functions are integrated with information structures into the constraint-based grammar under the HPSG framework. We examine the distribution of these particles and demonstrate how the thematic-rhematic dichotomy of the constituent can be determined by the informational status of one or more of its daughter constituents through various linguistic constraints. We show that the relation between syntactic constituency and information structure of a sentence is not a one-to-one mapping as a purely syntax-based analysis assumes, and then propose the multi-dimensional grammar which expresses mutual constraints on the thematic-rhematic interpretation, syntax and phonology.
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Ohtani, A. (2011). Integrating Japanese Particles Function and Information Structure. In: Gelbukh, A.F. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6608. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19400-9_28
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