The Complexity of Scrambling in Japanese: A TAG Approach

In this article, I present Japanese local and long-distance scrambling and restrictions to this phenomenon. I will argue that Japanese scrambling is too complex to be adequately represented with TAG. Instead, I will use a variant of TAG, namely TLMCTAG. Subsequently, I also will propose to regard other scrambling languages, such as German, or Russian, in complexity classes, which is basically driven by the derivational power of each TAG formalism. This classification, though remains peripheric.