Treating clitics with minimalist grammars
This work addresses a specific linguistic analysis problem for computational linguists, but it is incremental as it builds on an existing method.
The authors tackled the problem of extending Stabler's minimalist grammar approach to handle clitics in French, achieving broader coverage by enabling recognition of complex syntactic phenomena like dislocation and clitic climbing.
We propose an extension of Stabler's version of clitics treatment for a wider coverage of the French language. For this, we present the lexical entries needed in the lexicon. Then, we show the recognition of complex syntactic phenomena as (left and right) dislo- cation, clitic climbing over modal and extraction from determiner phrase. The aim of this presentation is the syntax-semantic interface for clitics analyses in which we will stress on clitic climbing over verb and raising verb.