This paper describes the treatment of French pronominal clitics developed for the multilingual Fips parser. Following a brief description of the Fips parser with its object-oriented design and a short review of the basic facts about French clitics, an analysis is presented which distinguishes pronominal chains (in the unmarked case) and argument absorption (for reflexive-reciprocal clitics agreeing with the grammatical subject). Specific data structures and associated procedures are necessary to implement the clitic-trace chain in the first case and the argument absorption in the second case. Exploiting the object-oriented model, we argue that such specific mechanisms should not be part of the basic (universal) model of the parser, but rather should be introduced as a specialization of the base model for languages which display pronominal clitics, such as Romance languages.
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Wehrli, E. (2017). Parsing language-specific constructions: The case of French pronominal clitics. In Formal Models in the Study of Language: Applications in Interdisciplinary Contexts (pp. 465–475). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48832-5_25
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