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Preliminary Recommendations
Attribute | Value | It. example | It. tag |
Type | preposition | di, a, da | E |
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In Italian, simple prepositions are separated into two categories:
- A closed set `di', `a', `da', `in', `con', `su', `per', `fra' and `tra' which is used
to express a number of syntactic relations.
- A larger set with more specific meanings, e.g. `sopra', `sotto', `prima',
`dopo',
`senza', etc. These constitute a crux in tagging because they are involved in
transcategorisation phenomena (see Conjunctions).
The tag is E.
Most of the prepositions in category 2 require the presence of another preposition before the
argument, e.g. ``sopra di noi''. This raises the problem of which strategy to
choose in multiword expression tagging (Leech & Wilson, 1993a).