RomContract

P+Det contracted forms are found throughout Romance to varying degrees, and also in Modern Greek, German, ... All contributions are welcome.

Simplest case

• The contracted forms are unambiguous (allows straightforward string-based pre-processing into 2 forms for parsing)
• The un-contracted P+Det sequence is unambiguously ungrammatical (allows straightfoward string-based post-processing for generation)
• no non-local, non-adjacency effects (e.g. interaction with coordination, parentheticals)

These conditions are rarely satisfied, perhaps in Spanish?

Spanish al/del

French

Portuguese

Modern Greek ston/stin/sto