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  <Title>A quantitative model of word order and movement in English, Dutch and German complement constructions</Title>
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5. Discussion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have shown that the introduction of topologies with a fixed number of slots, in conjunction with cross-clause lateral topology sharing, enables a simple treatment of word order and movement (promotion) in complement structures of the three target languages. The considerable within- and between-language variation typical of these constructions could be analyzed as resulting from different settings of a small number of quantitative parameters, in particular the size of shared areas. We claim that our approach is conducive to theoretical parsimony (and, presumably, computational efficiency). For instance, HPSG-style treatments of Wh-movement and Clause Union typically invoke very different types of mechanisms (e.g., the SLASH or GAP feature for WH-movement, and argument composition for Clause Union; cf. Sag &amp; Wasow, o.c., and Kathol o.c.).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Elsewhere we have provided a more fine-grained discussion of our approach and its psycho-linguistic motivation (Kempen &amp; Harbusch, in press; forthcoming). Future study is needed to find out whether the PG approach generalizes to other languages.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Finally, we refer to the PG sentence generator for Dutch which was implemented by Camiel van Breugel. It covers the ordering phenomena described here and in Kempen &amp; Harbusch (forthcoming) and runs under Java-enabled Internet browsers (www.liacs.nl/~cvbreuge/pgw). Vosse &amp; Kempen (2000) describe a computational model of human syntactic parsing based on a PG-like formalism. null</Paragraph>
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