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  <Title>TRACE &amp; UNIFICATION GRAMMAR</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The basic motivation in creating TUG formalism was to capture the empiric knowledge that represents the outcome of at least 15 years' linguistic discussion of German word order, while maintaining the efficiency that is required from a grammar formalism of today's standard. With reference to the basic work of \[Len77\] on marked and unmarked word order linguists in the generative tradition such as \[Thi82\], \[dB84\], \[Fau87\] and \[Cze87\] revealed an impreesive list of descriptive phenomena that can be appropriately handled by the assumption of s conflgurational, i.e. VP containing description of German word order. Among these phenomena count asymetries in the serialization behaviour of nominatively marked NPs in passive and the so called &amp;quot;psych&amp;quot; constructio*m*, the account for scrambling phenomena in Acl/ECM Constructions 2 and the observations of \[Cze87\] wrt. to the voices of double accusative verbs in German. What all these works intend is to pronounce the danger a description of German is likely to run iuto, that &amp;quot;draws immediate conclusions as to the surface position of argumet, t NPH on the basis of their surface cases&amp;quot; (\[dB84\]:59). t \[L~n77\] 0howl that v~rlm like w~ndcrn, ge.falle., #din#ca, etc. with non &amp;gentive subjects pat*era with the paaalvized formu of &amp;quot;agentive&amp;quot; verb~ in prefering the unmarked word order indlrC/ct object - subject. \[dB84\] extends thit ob~scrvation on copular corm*ruction with NP governin~ a4jectivee ~t~e also \[dB84\] for a thor* outline of tltis problematic ittstte</Paragraph>
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