Für die direkte Repräsentation von Gapping-Strukturen wird schließlich ein baumbasiertes Syntaxmodell, STUG, vorgeschlagen, in dem Syntax und Valenz getrennt, aber verlinkt sind.
Timm Lichte studied general linguistics, computer science and general rhetoric at the University of Tübingen, where he also started his PhD under Laura Kallmeyer as part of an Emmy-Noether Project. He is currently research associate of the CRC 991 at the University of Düsseldorf. His research focuses on the formalization and implementation of natural language grammars.