new insights with which to account for certain linguistic We describe a prototype SK~RED CmAt~eAR for the syntax of simple nominal expressions in Arabic, E~IL~lx, French, German, and Japanese implemented at MCC. In this Oamm~', a complex inheritance ian/cc of shared gr~mmAtlcal templates provides pans that each language can put together to form lansuug~specific gramm-ti~tl templates. We conclude that grammar shsrin 8 is not only possible but also desirable. It forces us to reveal cross- liuguistically invm'iant grammatie~ primitives that may otherwise rem~ conflamd with other primitives if we deal only with a single ~.nousge or l-n~uuge type. We call this the process of OaA~O~AT~CAL ^TOI~aZAT~ON. The specific implementation reported here uses catcgorial tmifr, ation grammar. The topics inc...

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