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  <Title>Relative Clauses in Hindi and Arabic: A Paninian Dependency Grammar Analysis</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> (Kruijff, 2002) notes that Dependency Grammar has its roots in Panini's grammar of Sanskrit (350/250 BC) and also the work of early Arabic grammarians (Kitab al-Usul of Ibn al-Sarraj, d. 928). Among the recent activities in Dependency Grammar, (Bharati et al., 1996b) have established a computational approach to Indian languages which they call the Paninian Grammar Framework (PGF).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Bharati et. al. (ibid) suggest that PGF is extensible to other languages, including fixed word order languages such as English. In considering a Machine Translation system for Hindi-Arabic, and given the availability of a PGF-style parser for Hindi (Pedersen, 2001), we have sought to establish the suitability of PGF for Arabic.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> In the following sections we will briefly describe the general PGF-inspired parsing framework, and then contrast the analysis of Hindi and Arabic relative clauses within this framework. In particular, we examine parallels between the Hindi co-relative construction and resumptive pronouns in Arabic, and demonstrate how a common logical interpretation can be given to syntactic variations of relative clauses in both languages.</Paragraph>
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