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    1. See howeverHellwig(2003) for anexplicit proposal that assumes that there is a linguistic object that represents the wholeconstituent rather than just the lexical head

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    2. assume

      The verb "assume" has a very high frequency across the chapter. Check whether it is really necessary in all those places. Alternatives: state, propose, argue for, build upon, hinge, is based on

    3. ee page191for a similar rule in GPSG and seeKasper(1994) for an HPSG analysisof German that assumes entirely flat structures and integrates an arbitrary number ofadjunct

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    4. that is

      delete. Search for all occurrences of "that is [a-z]*[ndt] " in the manuscript and see whether they can be deleted. [ndt] matches the final letter of most participles

    5. Since

      the conjunction "since" is used way to often in this chapter. Try to vary with "as", "because", "given that", "due tp" etc. Might apply elsewhere in the book as well

    6. An alternative to assuming discontinuous constituents would be to assume additionalmechanisms

      As an alternative to discontinuous constituents, one could assume ...

    7. ‘have’

      the German verb forms are not as ambiguous as the English translations suggest. Grammatical information about person and number encoded in the verb forms should be given here and elsewhere.