Multilingual Processing of Auxiliaries within LFG
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This paper proposes an analysis of English, French, and German auxiliaries in the context of parallel grammar development. We present an LFG implementation of the analysis which factors out language particular morphological wellformedness conditions from linguistically generalizable contributions of auxiliaries. Auxiliaries are treated as feature carrying elements, rather than as raising verbs. This avoids unnessary structural complexity and provides a uniform crosslinguistic analysis which eases the burden for machine translation. Im Kontext der parallelen Grammatikentwicklung wird eine Behandlung von Auxiliaren im Englischen, Franzz osischen und Deutschen vorgeschla-gen. Die LFG Implementierung trennt sprachspeziische morphologi-sche Wohlgeformtheitsbedingungen klar von linguistisch generalisierbaren Beitrr agen der Auxiliare, indem Auxiliare nicht als raising Verben, sondern als funktionale Elemente behandelt werden. Somit wird unnn otige struk-turelle Komplexitt at vermieden, und eine einheitliche sprach ubergreifende Analyse bereitgestellt, die auch maschinelle Ubersetzung erleichtern kann.
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