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Applying Pregroups to Italian Statements and Questions

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We know from the literature in theoretical linguistics that interrogative constructions in Italian have particular syntactic properties, due to the liberal word order and the rich inflectional system. In this paper we show that the calculus of pregroups represents a flexible and efficient computational device for the analysis and derivation of Italian sentences and questions. In this context the distinction between direct vs. indirect statements and questions is explored.

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  1. Faculty of Psychology, Dept. of Philosophy, University “G. D’Annunzio”, Via dei Vestini, Chieti Scalo, 66100, Chieti, Italy

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Special Issue Categorial Grammars and Pregroups Edited by Wojciech Buszkowski and Anne Preller

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Casadio, C. Applying Pregroups to Italian Statements and Questions. Stud Logica 87, 253–268 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11225-007-9086-1

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