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   We selected the option to use the Separate question particle "li"
   and sentence final; as the position.  However, this did not work
   since in Russian, the particle is placed usually after the first
   stressed word in the question (the verb or a predicate word)
   indicating the focus of the question. The end result is that our
   grammatical questions with "li” in the second place fail to parse
   in lkb and itsdb, while our ungrammatical questions with “li” at
   the end of the sentence are recognized as grammatical in itsdb (see
   further below for examples)

I'm not sure what you mean by "first stressed word".   Is it the case
that "li" is always the second word, and the word before it must be
stressed, or do you mean that wherever the first stressed word appears
in the string, "li" follows it?

Unfortunately, I don't think that the analysis provided by the customization
system will even be a good starting point in this case.  We'll work on
this in the lab on information structure, if not before, though.

1). either only one (last) coordinand is marked (A, B and C), 
2). or all coordinands are marked (and A, and B, and C), with the latter giving a reading similar to 
   (both ... and...), 
3). or none of the coordinands are marked (A, B, C).  

Do you also get A and B and C?  (This will be hard to block if not...)

  with the exception being when they describe nouns in menus or lists
  or when the noun is generic (as in example "Ivan - student userdnyj"
  ('Ivan is a hardworking student').

This noun is a predicate, rather than being generic.

  We cover these possibilities in our testsuite: 
  -for adverbs attaching to V we look at these possibilities: (noun adv verb), (noun verb adverb), (adv noun verb)
  -for adverbs attaching to S: (adverb S), (S adverb)

Do you get VP attachment too, eg Subj Adv Obj Verb?

  Complementizer "chto" ("that") is used for declarative clauses of
  saying, thinking, etc.  It cannot be omitted as in English in such
  contexts.  Other conjuctions can be used for other types of
  declarative clauses (i.e. "chtoby" ("in order to") for conjunctions
  of purpose; "tak chto" ("so") for conjunctions of result; "esli"
  ("if") for conditional conjunctions; "hotja/hotj" ("although") and
  "pustj" (even if) for concessive conjunctions, "kak" ("as, like")
  for comparative conjunctions, "do togo kak" ("until"), "posle togo
  kak" ("after"), "prezhde chem" ("before"), "poka" ("while"), "kogda"
  ("when") for temporal conjuctions, etc.)

Other than "chto", these seem like they will mostly involve adverbial
subordinate clauses, and thus be outside the scope of this class.

  conjunction "li"

I can't see how "li" would be a conjunction here.  

Is "li" required in embedded questions?  When you say it can appear in third position,
what are the first two things?  Do they plausibly form a constituent?  If the thing in 
initial position is an NP with more than one word in it, does "li" appear after the first
word of the NP or after the whole thing?

What about PP predicates (in the park) --- or are those handled with
case  marked nouns instead?

Do predicative adjectives show any agreement?

-VS(O)X allows the speaker to insert a strong focus and answer an implicit question (Timberlake 453).  

Strong focus on what?


  We have 5 wellformed/unanalyzed sentences (three of which were due
  to the position of "li" particle, discussed in the question formation
  section).

Surely there are more than 5 ... given the all the examples noted in part 2.  

  #56 (Sobaka jeta spit) (i-category: det). We are not yet clear on why it's not parsing.  

It looks like "Sobaka" and "jeta" aren't combining to form an NP.



