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  <Title>apos;Single Cycle' Languages: Empirical Evidence for TAG-Adjoining</Title>
  <Section position="11" start_page="156" end_page="156" type="concl">
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8 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Integration of TAG mechanisms into the mainstream linguistic theory leads to a significant widening of its empirical coverage in various domains. As shown in previous work, a major strength of the TAG formalism lies in its great potential to capture facts concerning strict locality of syntactic dependencies in natural language. The present study applies the TAG machinery in the domain of well known but ill explained phenomenon of radical across-the-board locality of syntactic dependencies in two Slavic languages, Russian and Polish. We have shown that making use of the TAG operation Adjoining leads to a simple and straightforward account of this phenomenon, while the standard (pre-)Minimalist model of syntax faces conceptual difficulties in this regard. We also provided independent support for the thesis of congruency of the parametric and acquisitional sequences with respect to Adjoining (Lebeaux, 1988/2000; Frank, 1998) and suggested ways of refining Adjoining in light of the new empirical data.</Paragraph>
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