  This paper focuses on two disparate aspects of German syntax from the
perspective of parallel grammar development. As part of a cooperative project,
we present an innovative approach to auxiliaries and multiple genitive NPs in
German. The LFG-based implementation presented here avoids unnessary structural
complexity in the representation of auxiliaries by challenging the traditional
analysis of auxiliaries as raising verbs. The approach developed for multiple
genitive NPs provides a more abstract, language independent representation of
genitives associated with nominalized verbs. Taken together, the two approaches
represent a step towards providing uniformly applicable treatments for
differing languages, thus lightening the burden for machine translation.
