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author = "Nivre, Joakim and
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month = may,
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address = "Palma de Mallorca, Spain",
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doi = "10.63317/5h44ewr98ssu",
pages = "208--217",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Nonprototypical Predication and Nonpredicational Clauses in Universal Dependencies](https://aclanthology.org/2026.udw-1.18/) (Nivre et al., UDW 2026)
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