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"abstract": "We describe a new framework for dependency grammar, with a modular decomposition of immediate dependency and linear precedence. Our approach distinguishes two orthogonal yet mutually constraining structures: a syntactic dependency tree and a topological dependency tree. The syntax tree is nonprojective and even non-ordered, while the topological tree is projective and partially ordered.",
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"text": "We describe a new framework for dependency grammar, with a modular decomposition of immediate dependency and linear precedence. Our approach distinguishes two orthogonal yet mutually constraining structures: a syntactic dependency tree and a topological dependency tree. The syntax tree is nonprojective and even non-ordered, while the topological tree is projective and partially ordered.",
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"text": "Linear precedence in so-called free word order languages remains challenging for modern grammar formalisms. To address this issue, we propose a new framework for dependency grammar which supports the modular decomposition of immediate dependency and linear precedence. Duchier (1999) formulated a constraint-based axiomatization of dependency parsing which characterized well-formed syntax trees but ignored issues of word order. In this article, we develop a complementary approach dedicated to the treatment of linear precedence.",
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"text": "Our framework distinguishes two orthogonal, yet mutually constraining structures: a syntactic dependency tree (ID tree) and a topological dependency tree (LP tree). While edges of the ID tree are labeled by syntactic roles, those of the LP tree are labeled by topological fields (Bech, 1955) . The shape of the LP tree is a flattening of the ID tree's obtained by allowing nodes to 'climb up' to land in an appropriate field at a host node where that field is available. Our theory of ID/LP trees is formulated in terms of (a) lexicalized constraints and (b) principles governing e.g. climbing conditions.",
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"text": "In Section 2 we discuss the difficulties presented by discontinuous constructions in free word order languages, and briefly touch on the limitations of Reape's (1994) popular theory of 'word order domains'. In Section 3 we introduce the concept of topological dependency tree. In Section 4 we outline the formal framework for our theory of ID/LP trees. Finally, in Section 5 we illustrate our approach with an account of the word-order phenomena in the verbal complex of German verb final sentences.",
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"text": "In free word order languages, discontinuous constructions occur frequently. German, for example, is subject to scrambling and partial extraposition. In typical phrase structure based analyses, such phenomena lead to e.g. discontinuous VPs:",
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"text": "Since this is classically disallowed, discontinuous constituents must often be handled indirectly through grammar extensions such as traces. Reape (1994) proposed the theory of word order domains which became quite popular in the HPSG community and inspired others such as M\u00fcller (1999) and Kathol (2000) . Reape distinguished two orthogonal tree structures: (a) the unordered syntax tree, (b) the totally ordered tree of word order domains. The latter is obtained from the syntax tree by flattening using the operation of domain union to produce arbitrary interleavings. The boolean feature [\u222a\u00b1] of each node controls whether it must be flattened out or not. Infinitives in canonical position are assigned [\u222a+] :",
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"text": "(dass) S NP DET einen N Mann NP Maria V zu lieben V versucht Extraposed infinitives are assigned [\u222a\u2212]: (dass) S NP Maria V versucht VP[\u222a\u2212] NP DET einen N Mann V zu lieben",
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"text": "As a consequence, Reape's theory correctly predicts scrambling (2,3) and full extraposition (4), but cannot handle the partial extraposition in (5):",
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"text": "Our approach is based on dependency grammar. We also propose to distinguish two structures: (a) a tree of syntactic dependencies, (b) a tree of topological dependencies. The syntax tree (ID tree) is unordered and non-projective (i.e. it admits crossing edges). For display purposes, we pick an arbitrary linear arrangement: The topological tree (LP tree) is partially ordered and projective:",
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"text": "Its edge labels are called (external) fields and are totally ordered: df \u227a mf \u227a vc. This induces a linear precedence among the daughters of a node in the LP tree. This precedence is partial because daughters with the same label may be freely permuted.",
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"text": "In order to obtain a linearization of a LP tree, it is also necessary to position each node with respect to its daughters. For this reason, each node is also assigned an internal field (d, n, or v) shown above on the vertical pseudo-edges. The set of internal and external fields is totally ordered:",
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"text": "Like Reape, our LP tree is a flattened version of the ID tree (Reape, 1994; Uszkoreit, 1987) , but the flattening doesn't happen by 'unioning up'; rather, we allow each individual daughter to climb up to find an appropriate landing place. This idea is reminiscent of GB, but, as we shall see, proceeds rather differently.",
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"text": "The framework underlying both ID and LP trees is the configuration of labeled trees under valency (and other) constraints. Consider a finite set L of edge labels, a finite set V of nodes, and E \u2286 V \u00d7 V \u00d7 L a finite set of directed labeled edges, such that (V, E) forms a tree. We write w\u2212 \u2212 \u2192 w for an edge labeled from w to w . We define the -daughters (w) of w \u2208 V as follows:",
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"text": "A valency is a subset of L. The tree (V, E) satisfies the valency assignment valency : V \u2192 2 L if for all w \u2208 V and all \u2208 L:",
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"text": "\u2208 valency(w) \u21d2 | (w)| = 1 ? \u2208 valency(w) \u21d2 | (w)| \u2264 1 * \u2208 valency(w) \u21d2 | (w)| \u2265 0 otherwise \u21d2 | (w)| = 0 4.1 ID Trees An ID tree (V, E ID , lex, cat, valency ID ) consists of a tree (V, E ID ) with E ID \u2286 V \u00d7 V \u00d7 R,",
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"text": "where the set R of edge labels ( Figure 1 ) represents syntactic roles such as subject or vinf (bare infinitive argument). lex : V \u2192 Lexicon assigns a lexical entry to each node. An illustrative Lexicon is displayed in Figure 1 where the 2 features cats and valency ID of concern to ID trees are grouped under table heading \"Syntax\". Finally, cat and valency ID assign a category and an R valency to each node w \u2208 V and must satisfy: ",
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"text": "Furthermore, (V, E ID ) must also satisfy the edge constraints stipulated by the grammar (see Figure 1 ). For example, for an edge w\u2212 \u2212\u2212\u2212 \u2192 det w to be licensed, w must be assigned category det and both w and w must be assigned the same agreement. 1",
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"text": "valency LP (w) = lex(w).valency LP (V, E LP ) must satisfy the valency LP assignment as described earlier. For example, the lexical entry for zu lieben 2 specifies:",
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"text": "which permits 0 or more mf edges and at most one xf edge; we say that it offers fields mf and xf. Unlike the ID tree, the LP tree must be projective.",
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"text": "We will not elaborate the notion of barrier which is beyond the scope of this article, but, for example, a noun will prevent a determiner from climbing through it, and finite verbs are typically general barriers.",
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"text": "Principle 3 a node must land on, or climb higher than, its head Subject to these principles, a node w may climb up to any host w which offers a field licensed by field ext (w ).",
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"text": "Our approach has points of similarity with (Br\u00f6ker, 1999) but eschews modal logic in favor of a simpler and arguably more perspicuous constraint-based formulation. It is also related to the lifting rules of (Kahane et al., 1998), but where they choose to stipulate rules that license liftings, we opt instead for placing constraints on otherwise unrestricted climbing.",
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"text": "We now illustrate our theory by applying it to the treatment of word order phenomena in the verbal complex of German verb final sentences. We assume the grammar and lexicon shown in Figure 1 . These are intended purely for didactic purposes and we extend for them no claim of linguistic adequacy.",
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"text": "Control verbs like versuchen or versprechen allow their zu-infinitival complement to be optionally extraposed. This phenomenon is also known as optional coherence. Optional extraposition is handled by having two lexical entries for zu lieben. One requires it to land in canonical position: field ext (zu lieben 1 ) = {vc} the other requires it to be extraposed:",
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