Parsing Chinese with Combinatory Categorial Grammar: A Linguistic and Computational Study

Table 7

Three-way function class distinction.

	Function classes	Word class in [23]	Sample words	CCG category
Content words	Substantives	Nouns	水‘water’, 道德‘morality’	NP
		Localizers	北京 ‘beijing’, 图书馆 ‘library’	NP
		Place words	上 ‘top’, 东边 ‘east’	LCP\NP
		Time words	今天 ‘today’, 从前 ‘before’	NP/NP
		Numerals	一 ‘one’, 百 ‘hundred’	QP/M
		Classifiers	张 ‘piece’, 条 ‘slip’	M
		Pronouns	谁 ‘who’, 这 ‘this’	(NP/NP)/M
	Predicates	Verbs	来 ‘come’, 吃 ‘eat’	S\NP, (S\NP)/NP, etc.
		Adjectives	红 ‘red’, 大 ‘big’	NP/NP
Function words	Auxiliaries	Adverbs	很 ‘very’, 也 ‘also’	(S\NP)/(S\NP), etc.
		Prepositions	把 ‘cause’, 被 ‘passive’	(S\NP)/S, etc.
		Conjunctives	和 ‘and’, 如果 ‘if’	Conj
		Particles	的 ‘of’, 所 ‘possessive’	(NP/NP)\(S\NP), etc.
		Interjunctions	啊 ‘ah’	S/S, S\S, etc.
		Conjunctives	和 ‘and’, 如果 ‘if’	Conj