... at the second level,into the VP node. Finally, within the VP subtreeit should predict the location of the gap as the lastchild of the parent VP.SBARQits associated gap; the meanings of the ... either to recurse into one of the childnodes, or to predict the existence of a gap betweentwo of the overt child nodes. (Since the number of daughters in a subtree is limited, the number of classes ... argument for the necessity of transformations (Chomsky, 1957), and prompted the introduction of powerful mechanisms such as the SLASH feature of GPSG (Gazdar et al., 1985).To the extent that these...