Long-distance scrambling and tree adjoining grammars
Tilman Becker, Aravind K. Joshi, Owen Rambow · 1991
... In this paper, we will explore the adequacy of the Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) formalism for dealing with long-distance scrambling I in German. We will show that TAGs cannot capture the full range of constructions derived by scrambling. However, Multi-Component TAGs (MC-TAG), an extension of TAGs introduced earlier [Joshi 1987a, Weir 1988] and utilized for linguistic purposes (e.g. for extraposition [Kroch and Joshi 1986]), can indeed capture the full range of constructions derived by scrambling. We will also present an ID/LP variant of TAG to capture the same constructions, and then comment on the relationship between the two systems.