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This paper proposes a description of German word order including phe- nomena considered as complex, such as scrambling, (partial) VP fronting and verbal pied piping. Our description relates a syntactic …...

. Despite the a priori desiratum of assimilating the derivation and interpretation of wh-questions in Japanese to that in English, empirical evidence shows that overt displacement of wh-phrases in Japanese …...

Several studies contend that the main motivation for scrambling is heaviness. In particular, Yamashita (2002) maintains that scrambling has nothing to do with givenness and that heaviness is the primary …...

This paper took an experimental approach and examined island constraints in Korean. Among many island constraints, this study took a Complex NP island constraint, and the experiment was designed with …...

In English-to-Japanese translation, BLEU (Papineni et al., 2002), the de facto standard evaluation metric for machine translation (MT), has very weak corre- lation with human judgments (Goto et al., 2011; …...

The present study investigated whether the local/A-scrambling of non-subject NPs to clause-initial (a potential subject) position can turn them into controllers of subject properties such as Honorific Agreement and Plural …...