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Can we build semantic mappings for CFG same as we do in CCG?

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How usual is it for languages to have both prepositions and postpositions?

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Syntactic models than span across multiple sentences

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How important is syntax to translation?

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What's the difference between syntax and grammar?

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In X Bar Theory where can “ne” and “pas” be found?

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When an existential verb is used existentially as the predicate to a subject, is it true in all languages that it cannot take another predicate?

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If our requirement says that the only thing that isn’t a phrase in an NP is the N itself, why a problem?

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If the that-trace effect is not learnable and thus must be biologically built in, how can speakers of French or Irish violate it?

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All non-head material must be phrasal. — Why's this principle nice idea from a mathematical point of view?

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What are the thematic structures of a clause?

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Are all “Ergative Languages” split-ergative?

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“Attempts to remove foreign adversaries through highly dubious legal or ethical means”

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Case in English phrase “friend of mine”

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