Syntactic Analyses for Parallel Grammars: Auxiliaries and Genitive NPs

This paper tbeuses on two disparate asI)e(:ts of German syntax from the perspeetive of paral]eJ grammar developmenl;. As part of a eOOl)erative project, we present an innovative approach to auxiliaries and multiph: genitive NPs ill German. The LFG-based imph:menration t)resented here avoids unnessary structural eonq)lexity in the representation of auxiliaries by challenging the traditional analysis of auxiliaries as raising verbs. The approach developed for multiple genitive NPs provides a mor(: at)straet, language independent representati(m of genitives associated with nominalized verl)s. Taken together, the two ai)proa(:hes rei)resent a step (;owards providing uniformly al)plical)le treatments for differing languages, thus lightening the burden for machine translation.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1996
• Where: COLING
• Authors: Miriam Butt, Christian Fortmann, Christian Rohrer
• Keywords: COLING 1996, COLING 2008, Genitive Nps, Multiple Genitive Nps, Paral]eJ Grammar Developmenl