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  <Title>I I I I i I i: AN ANNOTATED CORPUS IN JAPANESE USING TESNI\] RE'S STRUCTURAL SYNTAX</Title>
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INTRODUCTION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> TesniAre's attention to covering a maximal number of syntactic phenomena explains the impressive number of languages - &amp;quot;timco hominem unius linguae&amp;quot; - cited in the El~raents de syntaxe structurale. Although Japanese is correctly classified as a strongly centripetal language according to linear survey (relevd lin~aire, p. 33), no examples of Japanese are cited. Consequentl); we have endeavored to apply Tesni~re's ideas to Japanese by manually constructing the linguistic structures for more than six thousand sentences of a corpus of hotel reservation conversations. null In fact, Tesni~re's grammatical ideas, and among them, the most original ones, fit well to Japanese as they give simple and insightful descriptions of some usually controversial grammatical phenomena (ergative constructions, naadjectives). null After describing the different types and categories of words, we will focus on the three phenomena to which, according to Tesni~re, all syntactical phenomena reduce: connection, junction and transference. From the representational point of view, we will introduce correspondence intervals to code which part of the surface text corresponds to which nodes or subtrees. null</Paragraph>
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