Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale

Journal | Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
Journal issue | 56 | 2020
Research Article | Troubles on the Border

Troubles on the Border

Abstract

This paper aims to determine the extent and effects of the phenomenon of inconsistent case-particle boundary marking in the grammatical annotation of Japanese. It is focused on establishing what represents ‘inconsistent boundary marking’, how it is dealt with in informational terms, what effect it has on communication, and why it should be avoided. To this purpose, I will first build a typology of the tokenization strategies in the grammatical annotation of Japanese. I will then individuate several forms of inconsistent boundary marking and, more in general, of poor grammatical annotation, and discuss them according to the types of inconsistency and their different epistemic effects.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: April 15, 2020 | Accepted: June 1, 2020 | Published June 30, 2020 | Language: en

Keywords Case-particlesTokenizationJapaneseBoundary symbolsGrammatical annotationScript conversion


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