;;; lang_profile_de.el — German language profile for ELP.
;;; Mirrors lang_profile_en / lang_profile_es. Keys the realizer's construction
;;; switches. German is the largest Germanic delta from the EN engine: V2 word
;;; order, four morphological cases, and separable-prefix verbs.

(lang_profile_de
  (language        "German")
  (iso639          "de")
  (family          "Germanic")
  (neighbor-base   "en")     ; realized by extending the English (Germanic) engine

  ;; ── core typology flags ────────────────────────────────────────────────
  (pro-drop            no)          ; obligatory subject in finite clauses
  (obligatory-subject  yes)
  (grammatical-gender  (m f n))     ; three genders; drives article + adj declension
  (case-system         (nom acc dat gen))   ; four cases on articles/adjs/nouns
  (word-order          V2)          ; finite verb 2nd in main clause
  (subordinate-order   verb-final)  ; "..., dass er den Hund SIEHT."
  (separable-verbs     yes)         ; aufstehen -> "steht ... auf"; ppart "aufgestanden"
  (do-support          no)          ; German negates/questions the finite verb directly
  (subject-verb-inversion yes)      ; yes/no Q fronts finite verb; wh-Q fills Vorfeld
  (article-selection   "der/die/das + ein/kein")   ; declined by case x gender x number
  (adjective-position  prenominal)
  (adjective-declension (strong weak mixed))  ; chosen by the determiner type
  (noun-capitalization yes)

  ;; ── verb / aspect system ───────────────────────────────────────────────
  (finite-agreement    "person-and-number")   ; full present/past paradigm
  (auxiliary-order      (modal tense-aux perfect passive main))
  (perfect-aux         (haben sein))   ; sein for intransitive motion/change verbs
  (passive-aux         "werden")
  (future              "werden + infinitive")
  (comparative         "synthetic (-er / -st, with umlaut)")

  ;; ── negation ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  (negation-markers    (nicht kein))   ; kein- negates an indefinite NP; nicht else
  (negation-faithful   yes)            ; SACRED: polarity never dropped/inverted -> FLAG

  ;; ── lexicon provenance ─────────────────────────────────────────────────
  (lexicon-source      "UniMorph deu (primary) + kaikki.org German (gender override)")
  (lexicon-license     "CC-BY-SA 3.0 / GFDL"))