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Italian Clitic Patterns in Pregroup Grammar: State of the Art

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Pregroup calculus and pregroup grammars are introduced by Lambek as an algebraic tool for the grammatical analysis of natural languages and the computation of strings of words and sentences. Some interesting aspects of natural languages have been profitably handled by means of pregroups. In the present paper we focus on a chosen aspect of Italian grammar - clitic pronouns - and show how to tackle it by means of different types of pregroup grammars. We start with classical pregroup grammars, proceed to product pregroup grammars and then introduce tupled pregroup grammars. Advantages and disadvantages of the different approaches are discussed and compared.

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  1. University G. D’Annunzio Chieti IT, Italy

    Claudia Casadio

  2. Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland

    Aleksandra Kiślak-Malinowska

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  1. Department of Philosophy, Education and Quantitative Economics, Gabriele D’Annunzio University, Chieti-Pescara, Via dei Vestini 31, 60100, Chieti, Italy

    Claudia Casadio

  2. Department of Computer Science, Oxford University, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, OX1 3QD, Oxford, UK

    Bob Coecke

  3. Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, Utrecht University, Trans 10,, 3512 JK, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Michael Moortgat

  4. Department of Mathematics, University of Ottawa, 585 King Edward, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, ON, Canada

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Casadio, C., Kiślak-Malinowska, A. (2014). Italian Clitic Patterns in Pregroup Grammar: State of the Art. In: Casadio, C., Coecke, B., Moortgat, M., Scott, P. (eds) Categories and Types in Logic, Language, and Physics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8222. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54789-8_9

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