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 by J. Lambek , 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.
Agreement and Cliticization in Italian: a Pregroup Analysis
CASADIO, Claudia
2010-01-01
Abstract
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 by J. Lambek , 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.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
