A Pregroup Analysis of Japanese Causatives

PACLIC 21 / Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea / November 1-3, 200

Type grammar meets Japanese particles

PACLIC 20 / Wuhan, China / 1-3 November, 200

An algebraic study of Japanese grammar /

I present an algebraic language model for Japanese within the framework of a type grammar. The analysis pays attention to both inflectional morphology and to syntax. The mathematics for checking the sentencehood of strings of words invokes a generalization of the notorious group concept