Published 07/10/2017
Keywords
- corpus linguistics,
- POS-tagging,
- polyvalent use of che,
- neo-standard Italian,
- syntax
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Abstract
To the so-called neo-standard Italian language belong linguistic features that used to be considered as sub-standard. One of these features is the polyvalent use of ‘che’. In this paper, I aimed
at evaluating whether this polyvalent use of ‘che’ may be traced within a part of speech-tagged
corpus or not. Data show that ‘appositive’ sub-types of ‘che’ can be mined from the corpus via
queries, while ‘restrictive’ sub-types cannot