TAG Analysis of Turkish Long Distance Dependencies
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All permutations of a two level embedding sentence in Turkish is analyzed, in order to develop an LTAG grammar that can account for Turkish long distance dependencies. The fact that Turkish allows only long distance topicalization and extraposition is shown to be connected to a condition-the coherence condition-that draws the boundary between the acceptable and inacceptable permutations of the five word sentence under investigation. The LTAG grammar for this fragment of Turkish has two levels: the first level assumes lexicalized and linguistically appropriate elementary trees, where as the second level assumes elementary trees that are derived from the elementary trees of the first level, and are not lexi-calized.
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