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A Construction Grammar Approach for Pronominal Clitics in European Portuguese

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Cliticization in European Portuguese (EP) is unique amongst other Romance languages. While preverbal and postverbal placement of clitics is common, it is defined by the finiteness of the verb. In EP, however, the clitic placement does not depend on the verb, but on the context surrounding it. In this paper, we present an operational construction grammar model for parsing and production of proclitic contexts.

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    A demo of the grammar can be found in http://fcg-net.org/demos/propor-2016/.

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Acknowledgments

The research presented in this paper has been funded by the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no. 607062 ESSENCE: Evolution of Shared Semantics in Computational Environments (http://www.essence-network.com/).

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  1. School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB, UK

    Tânia Marques

  2. Artificial Intelligence Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Katrien Beuls

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  1. Universidade de Lisbon, Portugal

    João Silva

  2. ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal

    Ricardo Ribeiro

  3. Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal

    Paulo Quaresma

  4. Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Caxias do Suö, Brazil

    André Adami

  5. Universidade de Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal

    António Branco

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Marques, T., Beuls, K. (2016). A Construction Grammar Approach for Pronominal Clitics in European Portuguese. In: Silva, J., Ribeiro, R., Quaresma, P., Adami, A., Branco, A. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9727. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41552-9_24

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