Language settings
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Language settings are used to define the behaviour of a given language in case of absence of grammatical categories. They are necessary to solve underspecification problems that normally appear when translating between languages that have very different grammatical structures.
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When to use language settings
Language settings should be defined in two cases:
- to state grammatical redundancy (i.e., when the same grammatical structure represents several different linguistic phenomena); and
- to indicate how an absent grammatical category should be translated.
