Similarities And Differences Among Semantic Behaviors Of Japanese Adnominal Constituents


This paper treats the classification of the semantic functions performed by adnominal constituents in Japanese, where many parts of speech act as adnominal constituents. In order to establish a formal treatment of the semantic roles, the similarities and differences among adnominal constituents, i.e. adjectives and "noun + NO" (in English "of + noun") structures, which have a broad range of semantic functions, are discussed. This paper also proposes an objective method of classifying these constructs using a large amount of linguistic data. The feasibility of this was verified with a self-organizing semantic map based on a neural network model.