<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<Paper uid="C86-1117">
  <Title>Getting Things Out Of Order (Au LFG-Proposal for the Treatment of German Word Order)</Title>
  <Section position="4" start_page="495" end_page="495" type="metho">
    <SectionTitle>
4. CONCLUSION
</SectionTitle>
    <Paragraph position="0"> As we mentioned in the introduction, the analysis proposed in 4.c) is a very radical solution which in its present form presupposes that German is a (relatively) free word order language.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Its advantages should be obvious from the examples given above: Free word order in the domain of nominal arguments, extraposition and topicalization of incomplete VP-nodes etc. can be easily covered, its disadvantages might be limitable by the introduction of linear precedence rules. Still, the idea of functional incertainty certainly represents an interesting mechanism, that could make it much easier to get things out of order.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Footnotes: I) Tllis paper has been based on research presently carried out at the Department of Linguistics, Stuttgart, sponsored by the BUNDESHINISTER</Paragraph>
  </Section>
class="xml-element"></Paper>