Dependency Structure of Coordination in Head-final Languages: a Dependency-Length-Minimization-Based Study

Wojciech Stempniak


Abstract
There is no single accepted model of the dependency structure of coordination. Universal Dependencies (UD, De Marneffe et al. 2021) enforces in its corpora an asymmetrical model privileging the coordination’s first conjunct as a standard. Kanayama et al. (2018) criticize that approach stating that this model is incompatible with the grammatical structure of head-final languages. Recent research (Przepiórkowski and Woźniak 2023, Przepiórkowski et al. 2024a) provides a DLM-based argument for the symmetrical models of the dependency structure of English coordination. This paper shows the result of the analysis of coordinations found in UD corpora of two head-final languages, namely Korean and Turkish. Based on the analysis of coordinations and theoretical arguments, an alternative approach to the dependency structure of coordination in head-final languages is suggested.
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Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2024)
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2024
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Hamburg,Germany
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Wojciech Stempniak. 2024. Dependency Structure of Coordination in Head-final Languages: a Dependency-Length-Minimization-Based Study. In Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2024), pages 65–75, Hamburg,Germany. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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