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.

Grammatical redundancy

Translation

Syntax

Examples

Software