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Extraction in Dutch with Lexical Rules
Unbounded dependencies are often modelled by ``traces'' (and ``gap
threading'') in unification-based grammars. Pollard and Sag, however, suggest
an analysis of extraction based on lexical rules, which excludes the notion of
traces (P&S 1994, Chapter 9). In parsing, it suggests a trade of indeterminism
for lexical ambiguity. This paper provides a short introduction to this
approach to extraction with lexical rules, and illustrates the linguistic power
of the approach by applying it to particularly idiosyncratic Dutch extraction
data.Comment: Extension of KONVENS94 publication, 10 pages, PostScrip