Computing Italian clitic and relative clauses with tupled pregroups

ABSTRACT. Pregroup grammars are introduced by Lambek in 1999 as an algebraic tool for the formal analysis of natural languages. The main focus of the present paper is placed on a special extension of this calculus known as tupled pregroup grammars. Their applications to Italian concerning different sentential structures involving clitic pronouns, relative pronouns and related phenomena are taken into consideration and the advantages of the tupled pregroup approach are shown from the point of view of both linguistic analysis and syntactic computation.