Abstract
In this paper I discuss several possible analyses for constituent order in German. Approaches that assume continuous constituents are compared with an approach that assumes discon- tinuous constituents. I will show that certain proposals that have been made to analyze constituent order are either not adequate or cannot be implemented with currently available systems. For the pro- posals that can be implemented I will discuss the amount of work a parser has to do. I then compare two implementations of larger fragments of German: the Verbmobil grammar and the Babel grammar. It is shown that the amount of work to be done to parse the Verbmobil grammar is significantly higher than the work that has to be done parsing with the Babel grammar.
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