@inproceedings{osborne-song-2025-head,
    title = "Head-initial and head-Final coordinate structures in two annotation schemes of dependency grammar",
    author = "Osborne, Timothy John  and
      Song, Chenchen",
    editor = "Haji{\v{c}}ov{\'a}, Eva  and
      Kahane, Sylvain",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling, SyntaxFest 2025)",
    month = aug,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Ljubljana, Slovenia",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2025.depling-1.6/",
    pages = "74--83",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-290-9",
    abstract = "The Universal Dependencies (UD) and Surface-Syntactic Universal Dependencies (SUD) annotation schemes view coordinate structures as head-initial. This contribution argues that a more flexible approach to coordinate structures is linguistically motivated, one that sees coordinate structures as head-initial in greater head-initial structures and as head-final in greater head-final structures. Support for this flexible approach comes from two areas: dependency distance and a nearness effect. In addition, two arguments that have been produced supporting the strictly head-initial approach are examined and refuted."
}