Isolating Cross-linguistic Parsing Complexity with a Principles-and-Parameters Parser: A Case Study of Japanese and English

As parsing models and linguistic theories have broad ened to encorapass a wider range of non-English languages, a particularly uscfifl "stress test" is to buikl a single theory/parser pair that can work for multiple languages, in the best case with minor variation, perhaps restricted to the lexicon. This paper reports on the resuits of just such a test applied to a fully operational (Prolog) implementation of a so-called principles-andparameters model of syntax, for the case of Japanese

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