Komagata, Nobo

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    Contrastive Function of Japanese Particle WA
    (1998-08-01) Komagata, Nobo
    The Japanese 'adverbial particle' wa is usually argued to have topic and contrastive functions. The previous analyses on contrastive function of wa have two problems. First, they fail to account for 'association with contrast' in complex NP. Second, the notion of contrast has not been made explicit enough to account for an asymmetry between contrasts involving and not involving wa. This paper assumes that the basic contrastive meaning is carried by phonological prominence, and argues that wa interacts with such a contrast resulting in a distinct presupposition, following 'alternative semantics' of Rooth.
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    Computer-Assisted Writing System: Improving Readability with Respect to Information Structure
    (1998-08-01) Komagata, Nobo
    Text coherence and readability in English can be significantly affected by the organization of information in an utterance. To assist writers in this respect, we implement a Computer-Assisted Writing system focusing on ‘information structure’. The main challenge in this task is identification of information structure in texts. This paper shows that this can be done by checking discourse status and linguistic marking in utterances.