The current libraries include analyses of major constituent word order (SOV, SVO, etc), sentential negation, coordination, and yes-no question formation.

Perhaps the most striking feature of Wambaya is its word order : it is a radically non-configurational language with a second position auxiliary/clitic cluster.

That is, aside from the constraint that verbal clauses require a clitic cluster (marking subject and object agreement and tense, aspect and mood) in second position, the word order is otherwise free, to the point that noun phrases can be noncontiguous, with head nouns and their modifiers separated by unrelated words.

The customization-provided Wambaya-specific type definitions for word order , lexical types, and coordination constructions were used for inspiration, but most needed fairly extensive modification.

This is particularly unsurprising for basic word order, where the closest available option (“free word order” ) was taken, in the absence of a prepackaged analysis of non-configurationality and second-position phenomena.

This again suggests that lexical v. phrasal amalgamation should be encoded in the libraries, and selected according to the word order pattern of the language.

The LinGO Grammar Matrix (Bender et al., 2002; Bender and Flickinger, 2005; Drellishak and Bender, 2005) is a toolkit for reducing the cost of creating broad-coverage precision grammars by prepackaging both a cross-linguistic core grammar and a series of libraries of analyses of cross-linguistically variable phenomena, such as maj or-constituent word order or question formation.

0 Word order: second position clitic cluster, otherwise free word order , discontinuous noun phrases

1998) are marked (attribute tf a), together with so-called deep word order reflected by the order of nodes in the annotation (attribute deepord).

In the underlying word order , nodes representing the quasi-focus, although they are contextually bound, are placed to the right from their governing node.

The position of rhematizers in the surface word order is quite loose, however they almost always stand right before the eXpressions they rhematize, i.e.

the node representing the rhematizer) is placed as the closest left brother (in the underlying word order ) of the first node of the expression that is in its scope.