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title = "Head-initial and head-Final coordinate structures in two annotation schemes of dependency grammar",
author = "Osborne, Timothy John and
Song, Chenchen",
editor = "Haji{\v{c}}ov{\'a}, Eva and
Kahane, Sylvain",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling, SyntaxFest 2025)",
month = aug,
year = "2025",
address = "Ljubljana, Slovenia",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.depling-1.6/",
pages = "74--83",
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abstract = "The Universal Dependencies (UD) and Surface-Syntactic Universal Dependencies (SUD) annotation schemes view coordinate structures as head-initial. This contribution argues that a more flexible approach to coordinate structures is linguistically motivated, one that sees coordinate structures as head-initial in greater head-initial structures and as head-final in greater head-final structures. Support for this flexible approach comes from two areas: dependency distance and a nearness effect. In addition, two arguments that have been produced supporting the strictly head-initial approach are examined and refuted."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Head-initial and head-Final coordinate structures in two annotation schemes of dependency grammar
%A Osborne, Timothy John
%A Song, Chenchen
%Y Hajičová, Eva
%Y Kahane, Sylvain
%S Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling, SyntaxFest 2025)
%D 2025
%8 August
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Ljubljana, Slovenia
%@ 979-8-89176-290-9
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%X The Universal Dependencies (UD) and Surface-Syntactic Universal Dependencies (SUD) annotation schemes view coordinate structures as head-initial. This contribution argues that a more flexible approach to coordinate structures is linguistically motivated, one that sees coordinate structures as head-initial in greater head-initial structures and as head-final in greater head-final structures. Support for this flexible approach comes from two areas: dependency distance and a nearness effect. In addition, two arguments that have been produced supporting the strictly head-initial approach are examined and refuted.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.depling-1.6/
%P 74-83
Markdown (Informal)
[Head-initial and head-Final coordinate structures in two annotation schemes of dependency grammar](https://aclanthology.org/2025.depling-1.6/) (Osborne & Song, DepLing-SyntaxFest 2025)
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