Multilingual Processing of Auxiliaries within LFG

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.

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