From Partial VP Fronting towards Spinal TT-MCTAG
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In the face of partial fronting phenomena in German, we introduce spinal TT-MCTAG, a new MCTAG variant that integrates features of LTAG-spinal and TT-MCTAG. Using spinal TT-MCTAG we arrive at flat syntactic structures which make available a consistent account for the data.
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