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  <Title>Arguments desperately seeking Interpretation: Parsing German Infinitives</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Free word order languages raise difficulties for parsing systems based on phrase-structure rule grammars, where the constituents are ordered. Indeed, to list all the possible orders leads to an increase in the grammar size and a corresponding decrease in performance. There have been several approaches to this problem, notably those based on the ID/LP (immediate dominance/linear precedence) grammars (eft Gazdar et al. 1985) or functional unification grammars (cf. Karttunnen &amp;: Kay 1985). Within the Government and Binding framework, Kashket (1991) presents a parser for Warlpiri, a non-configurational language, where word order and its variation depends mainly on case marking.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Although German is a partially free word order language, we will assume that it has a fixed base word order, which is modified by a set of movement transformations. In this paper, we will present the argument interpretation strategy *Thanks to Scott Fergusson for comments. This work has been supported in part by a grant from the FNRS, grant no 11-33731.92 of our parser for German, which is able to handle the difficulties arising from word order variations, focusing on the treatment of infinitival constructions. 1</Paragraph>
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