A quantitative approach to preposition-pronoun contraction in Polish

Abstract

This paper presents the current results of an ongoing research project on corpus distribution of prepositions and pronouns within Polish preposition-pronoun contractions. The goal of the project is to provide a quantitative description of Polish preposition-pronoun contractions taking into consideration morphosyntactic properties of their components. It is expected that the results will provide a basis for a revision of the traditionally assumed inflectional paradigms of Polish pronouns and, thus, for a possible remodeling of these paradigms. The results of corpus-based investigations of the distribution of prepositions within preposition-pronoun contractions can be used for grammar-theoretical and lexicographic purposes.

A quantitative approach to preposition-pronoun contraction in Polish

“…As (Świdziński and Derwojedowa, 2004) and (Trawiński, 2005) have observed, prepositionpronoun contraction (PPC) in Polish (cf. (1)) is a highly idiosyncratic phenomenon.…”

“…For a discussion on prosodic, morphosyntactic and semantic properties of Polish PPC, see(Trawiński, 2005).…”

Prepositions in Applications: A Survey and Introduction to the Special Issue

“…Naturally there are other prepositional MWE types in languages other than English with their own syntactic complexities. Notable examples to have received attention in the computational linguistics literature are Dutch "collocational prepositional phrases" (Villada Moirón 2005), German complex prepositions (Trawiński 2003;Trawinski, Sailer, and Soehn 2006), German particle verbs (Schulte im Walde 2004; Rehbein and van Genabith 2006), and Polish preposition-pronoun contractions (Trawiński 2005(Trawiński , 2006.…”