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| Approach: | They propose a platform for studying word order in German using syntactically annotated corpora . fintan is a flexible integrated transformation and annotation platform . |
| Outcome: | The proposed platform can be used to study word order in German . it hints at two major phases in the development of scrambling in modern german . |
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