The conjunction of a clitic and a PP, such as the one illustrated in (1), is treated as a case of conjunction of unlike categories and not as a case of ellipsis. By default, the category enclosing the entire conjunction structure is that of the first conjunct, which in this case corresponds to an NP. To deal with this structure and clitic doubling in a similar way, CONJP is labelled with the dash tag -PRN.(1) Adoro-te e à Maria. ( (IP-MAT (IP-MAT (NP-SBJ *pro*) |
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