diff --git a/src/compiler/GF/Command/Commands.hs b/src/compiler/GF/Command/Commands.hs
index a05b3cf20..5b3737553 100644
--- a/src/compiler/GF/Command/Commands.hs
+++ b/src/compiler/GF/Command/Commands.hs
@@ -516,9 +516,9 @@ allCommands = Map.fromList [
        ],
      exec = \env@(pgf, mos) opts -> return . fromStrings . optLins pgf opts,
      options = [
-       ("all","show all forms and variants, one by line (cf. l -list)"),
+       ("all",    "show all forms and variants, one by line (cf. l -list)"),
        ("bracket","show tree structure with brackets and paths to nodes"),
-       ("groups","all languages, grouped by lang, remove duplicate strings"),
+       ("groups", "all languages, grouped by lang, remove duplicate strings"),
        ("list","show all forms and variants, comma-separated on one line (cf. l -all)"),
        ("multi","linearize to all languages (default)"),
        ("table","show all forms labelled by parameters"),
@@ -529,6 +529,24 @@ allCommands = Map.fromList [
        ("unlexer","set unlexers separately to each language (space-separated)")
        ]
      }),
+  ("lc", emptyCommandInfo {
+     longname = "linearize_chunks",
+     synopsis = "linearize a tree that has metavariables in maximal chunks without them",
+     explanation = unlines [
+       "A hopefully temporary command, intended to work around the type checker that fails",
+       "trees where a function node is a metavariable."
+       ],
+     examples = [
+       mkEx "l -lang=LangSwe,LangNor -chunks ? a b (? c d)"
+       ],
+     exec = \env@(pgf, mos) opts -> return . fromStrings . optLins pgf (opts ++ [OOpt "chunks"]),
+     options = [
+       ] ++ stringOpOptions,
+     flags = [
+       ("lang","the languages of linearization (comma-separated, no spaces)")
+       ],
+     needsTypeCheck = False
+     }),
   ("ma", emptyCommandInfo {
      longname = "morpho_analyse",
      synopsis = "print the morphological analyses of all words in the string",
@@ -1155,6 +1173,8 @@ allCommands = Map.fromList [
        _ | isOpt "treebank" opts ->
          (showCId (abstractName pgf) ++ ": " ++ showExpr [] t) :
          [showCId lang ++ ": " ++ linear pgf opts lang t | lang <- optLangs pgf opts]
+       _ | isOpt "chunks" opts ->
+            [unwords (intersperse "<+>" (map (linear pgf opts lang) (treeChunks t))) | lang <- optLangs pgf opts]
        _  -> [linear pgf opts lang t | lang <- optLangs pgf opts]
 
    linear :: PGF -> [Option] -> CId -> Expr -> String
diff --git a/src/compiler/GF/Command/TreeOperations.hs b/src/compiler/GF/Command/TreeOperations.hs
index bf8882802..220c8f561 100644
--- a/src/compiler/GF/Command/TreeOperations.hs
+++ b/src/compiler/GF/Command/TreeOperations.hs
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 module GF.Command.TreeOperations (
   treeOp,
-  allTreeOps
+  allTreeOps,
+  treeChunks
   ) where
 
 import PGF
@@ -30,6 +31,8 @@ allTreeOps pgf = [
       Left  $ concatMap subtrees)),
    ("funs",("return all fun functions appearing in the tree, with duplications",
       Left  $ concatMap funNodes))
+---   ("chunks",("return all chunks, i.e. maximal subtrees where the top node is not a metavariable",
+---      Left  $ concatMap treeChunks)) --- a tree with ? head does not type check anyway AR 5/11/2013
   ]
 
 largest :: [Expr] -> [Expr]
@@ -42,6 +45,15 @@ smallest = sortBy (\t u -> compare (size t) (size u)) where
     EApp e1 e2 -> size e1 + size e2 + 1
     _ -> 1
 
+treeChunks :: Expr -> [Expr]
+treeChunks = snd . cks where
+  cks t = case unAppForm t of
+    (EFun f, ts) -> case unzip (map cks ts) of 
+       (bs,_) | and bs      -> (True, [t])
+       (_,cts)              -> (False,concat cts)
+    (EMeta _, ts)           -> (False,concatMap (snd . cks) ts)
+    _                       -> (True, [t])
+
 subtrees :: Expr -> [Expr]
 subtrees t = t : case unApp t of
   Just (f,ts) -> concatMap subtrees ts
diff --git a/src/runtime/haskell/PGF/Expr.hs b/src/runtime/haskell/PGF/Expr.hs
index 01b791847..264be4aaa 100644
--- a/src/runtime/haskell/PGF/Expr.hs
+++ b/src/runtime/haskell/PGF/Expr.hs
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ module PGF.Expr(Tree, BindType(..), Expr(..), Literal(..), Patt(..), Equation(..
                 readExpr, showExpr, pExpr, pBinds, ppExpr, ppPatt, pattScope,
 
                 mkAbs,    unAbs,
-                mkApp,    unApp,
+                mkApp,    unApp, unAppForm,
                 mkStr,    unStr,
                 mkInt,    unInt,
                 mkDouble, unDouble,
@@ -112,13 +112,19 @@ mkApp f es = foldl EApp (EFun f) es
 
 -- | Decomposes an expression into application of function
 unApp :: Expr -> Maybe (CId,[Expr])
-unApp = extract []
+unApp e = case unAppForm e of
+  (EFun f,es) -> Just (f,es)
+  _           -> Nothing
+
+-- | Decomposes an expression into an application of a constructor such as a constant or a metavariable
+unAppForm :: Expr -> (Expr,[Expr])
+unAppForm = extract []
   where
-    extract es (EFun f)     = Just (f,es)
+    extract es f@(EFun _)   = (f,es)
     extract es (EApp e1 e2) = extract (e2:es) e1
     extract es (ETyped e ty)= extract es e
     extract es (EImplArg e) = extract es e
-    extract es _            = Nothing
+    extract es h            = (h,es)
 
 -- | Constructs an expression from string literal
 mkStr :: String -> Expr
diff --git a/src/ui/android/src/org/grammaticalframework/ui/android/Translator.java b/src/ui/android/src/org/grammaticalframework/ui/android/Translator.java
index 1e63a57fb..65b311611 100644
--- a/src/ui/android/src/org/grammaticalframework/ui/android/Translator.java
+++ b/src/ui/android/src/org/grammaticalframework/ui/android/Translator.java
@@ -22,18 +22,18 @@ public class Translator {
     private static final String TAG = "Translator";
 
     // TODO: allow changing
-       private String mGrammar = "ParseEngAbs.pgf";
-    ///private String mGrammar = "TranslateEngChiFinSwe.pgf";  // AR
+    ///       private String mGrammar = "ParseEngAbs.pgf";
+    private String mGrammar = "TranslateEngChiFinSwe.pgf";  // AR
 
     // TODO: build dynamically?
     private Language[] mLanguages = {
-        ///new Language("en-US", "English", "TranslateEng", R.xml.inflection_en),  // AR
-        ///new Language("cmn-Hans-CN", "Chinese", "TranslateChi", 0), 
-	///        new Language("fi-FI", "Finnish", "TranslateFin", 0), 
-	///        new Language("sv-SE", "Swedish", "TranslateSwe", 0), 
+        new Language("en-US", "English", "TranslateEng", R.xml.inflection_en),  // AR
+        new Language("cmn-Hans-CN", "Chinese", "TranslateChi", 0), 
+	        new Language("fi-FI", "Finnish", "TranslateFin", 0), 
+	        new Language("sv-SE", "Swedish", "TranslateSwe", 0), 
 
-	            new Language("en-US", "English", "ParseEng", R.xml.inflection_en),
-	            new Language("bg-BG", "Bulgarian", "ParseBul", R.xml.inflection_bg),
+	///	            new Language("en-US", "English", "ParseEng", R.xml.inflection_en),
+	///         new Language("bg-BG", "Bulgarian", "ParseBul", R.xml.inflection_bg),
     };
 
     private Language mSourceLanguage;