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  <Title>GERMAN: FRENCH: F.NGLISH: NUMBER: GENDER: CASE: DEFINrrE: ANNEXED SG DU PL3 M F NOM ACC GEN /- + - SG PL M F N NOM ACC GEN DAT SG PL M F SG PL</Title>
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Acknowledgments
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This shared grammar work is a collaborative effort of a team at MCC. I am especially indebted to my fellow linguis~ Anthony Arists~ and Carol Juatus, for their insights into multilingual facts and numerous discussions.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> I would also like. to tl~nk Rich Cohen, Martha Morgan, Elaine Rich, Jonathan Slecum, Ksystyna Wachowicz, and Kent Wittenburg for valuable comments and discussions at various phases of the work. Thank~ also go to AI Mendall and Michael O'Leary for implementing the interface tool, e~l to anonymous ACL reviewers for helpful comments. I am responsible, however, for this particular exposition of the work and remaining shortcomings.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> IdegWe envision using a data structure of type inheritance lattice defined for each lanouage to express word order constraints in order to handle non-default orde~m 8. The basic idea is that an order constraint stated on a d_,~'__~-ndant (e.g. DEM &lt; head) ovearides that stated on its anc~tont (e.g. head &lt; MOD). This differs from GPSG's LP rules (Gazdar &amp; Pullum 1981; Gazd&amp; et al. 1985; Uzlmreit 1986) in that the order conslraints apply to items located anywhen&amp;quot; in the derivational Iree struclrue, not limited to sister constituents, and the pieces of an item can be scattered in the tree. It is in spirit ~imilar to LFG's functional precedence conslraints (Kaplun 1988; Kameyama forthcoming).</Paragraph>
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