Free-word order languages typically pose greater challenges for syntactic theories (Rambow, 1994), and the richer inflectional morphology of these languages creates additional problems both for the coverage of lexicalized formalisms such as CCG or TAG, and for the usefulness of dependency counts extracted from the training data.
formalisms such as CCG and TAG are particularly suited to capture the cross-ing dependencies that arise in languages such as Dutch or German, and by choosing an appropriate linguistic representation, some of these problems may be mitigated.