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Agreement and Cliticization in Italian: A Pregroup Analysis

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Language and Automata Theory and Applications (LATA 2010)

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This paper presents an analysis of features specification and agreement based on the parallel computations of a type calculus involving two pregroups grammars: the free pregroup of syntactic types that takes care of the syntactic calculations, and a second free pregroup computing feature operations. As recently argued in [19] , working with two free pregroups in parallel has the advantage of treating featural information more carefully and independently from the type assignments; the calculus is therefore particularly appropriate for the analysis of agreement properties in Romance languages. In the paper we focus on the Italian language, introducing a type syntax of the verbal constructions in which clitic pronouns occur and offering an explanation of the interaction between agreement features and clitic pronouns.

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    Adrian-Horia Dediu  & Carlos Martín-Vide  & 

  2. Fachbereich IV - Informatik, Universität Trier, Campus II, Behringstraße, 54286, Trier, Germany

    Henning Fernau

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Casadio, C. (2010). Agreement and Cliticization in Italian: A Pregroup Analysis. In: Dediu, AH., Fernau, H., Martín-Vide, C. (eds) Language and Automata Theory and Applications. LATA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6031. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13089-2_14

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