Tense and Aspect in Japanese and English

Download or read book Tense and Aspect in Japanese and English written by Kei Yoshimoto and published by Peter Lang Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2000 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work aims at a contrastive investigation of the tense and aspect in Japanese and English, placing emphasis on formal solutions of problems which are applicable to machine translation, based on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar and Discourse Representation Theory. After formulating DRS's for Japanese predicates with and without te iru, it addresses the issue of how to resolve the ambiguity in terms of the aspectual meanings in te iru-marked sentences. Then the problem of Consecutio Temporum (sequence of tense) is discussed on the basis of a four-layered syntactic hierarchy. Lastly, the result of an implementation of the rules proposed in the preceding part of the work is exhibited.