Characteristics of Japanese

• No space between words

  • Morphological Analyzer: JUMAN3.5 [Kurohashi 98] (Precision = 95--99%)

• Head-final

• Free ordering of PPs (complements) and modifiers

  • SUBCAT is treated as like a set.

• Frequent omission of PPs

  • Unsaturated SUBCAT is O.K.

• No relative pronoun for a relative clause

• Postposition “wa” is for a topic

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