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Eckhard Bick - VISL

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(2c) homens @NPHR e @CO mulheres @NPHR casadas @N<<br />

‘men and women she-married’<br />

Even where ambiguity is not underspecified by structural "flatness", i.e. where it<br />

concerns the function of individual - well established - constituents, Constraint<br />

Grammar notation, being word based, offers an elegant means of expressing multiple<br />

readings: Several (competing) function or dependency tags can be added to the same<br />

word, so that ambiguity can be expressed in one analysis rather than in two or more<br />

different trees. Especially with long sentences this may be more transparent - and<br />

pedagogically superior - than a multi-page list of complete alternative (tree) analyses.<br />

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