Specifically, we look at the verbparticle (V-Prt) split in English and German, such as in the examples below: (1) take V the shoes off P rt (2) macht V schon wieder blau P rt From a syntactic perspective, these two languages behave very differently: in German, the particle position is clausefinal and a particle can be separated from its verb by an embedded clause, while in English a particle can be separated from the verb only by its direct object and a very long split is impossible.
from a MT perspective, these constructions are rather similar as they involve the same type of lexical items (verbs and particles) which must be translated in connection to each other for a correct output.