An ATN Treatment WH-Movement

An ATN-Parser is presented with emphasis on the treatment of those phenomena which in the framework of transformational grammar are subsumed under the concept of WH-movement. The approach taken tries to embed these constructions into an ATN grsmmar in a general, linguistically motivated and in terms of the ATN gr~mrn~r formalism descriptive way. To accomplish this goal the approach described incorporates the basic principles governing such constructions as formulated in the framework of the trace theory roposed in the development of the Extended tandard Theory (EST). Thus a ,miffed treatment for both relative clauses and wh-questions is achieved. 1 Overview 1.1 The Grammar The ATN-Language used is except for some minor deviations which are not of importance here in accordance with the one specified in [BATES 78] and covers the following subset of English: the most frequent verb types for declarative and imperative sentences and questions direct and indirect WH-questions (for NPs, PPs, ADJPs, ADVPs) direct and indirect Y/N-questions sentential complements for verbs and nouns various types of relative clauses (complete, reduced...) infintive construction (including control verbs with subject and nonsubject control) conjunction of complete constituents of every syntactic category