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  <Title>A Quantitative Approach to Preposition-Pronoun Contraction in Polish</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> As (*Swidzi*nski and Derwojedowa, 2004) and (Trawi*nski, 2005) have observed, preposition-pronoun contraction (PPC) in Polish (cf. (1)) is a highly idiosyncratic phenomenon.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> (1) a. na niego 'on him' a0 na*n 'on_him' b. w niego 'in him' a0 we*n 'in_him' On the one hand, not just any pronoun can occur in a PPC, on the other hand, the set of prepositions which are able to contract with pronouns involves a very limited number of elements.1 The distribution of pronouns and prepositions within Polish PPCs has not yet been discussed 1For a discussion on prosodic, morphosyntactic and semantic properties of Polish PPC, see (Trawi*nski, 2005). in detail. There are, however, several traditional approaches to Polish third person personal pronouns (TPPPs) which provide some relevant information.2 In the following, the approach to TPPPs of (Saloni, 1981), adopted in our research project, will be presented.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> According to (Saloni, 1981), the inventory of Polish TPPPs comprises masculine human, masculine animate, masculine inanimate, feminine, and neuter pronouns, in ecting for case (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental and locative), number (singular and plural), postprepositionality (yes or no) and accentability (yes or no). The in ectional paradigms of TPPPs proposed by (Saloni, 1981), and adopted in most Polish grammars, indicate that only genitive and accusative masculine human, masculine animate and masculine inanimate singular TPPPs possess unaccented postprepositional realizations, i.e., are able to contract with prepositions.3 However, corpus evidence indicates that there may be many further possibilities of the realization of unaccented postprepositional pronouns, i.e., pronouns contractible with prepositions.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> Corpus data also provide interesting information about the distribution of prepositions within PPCs. Only some PPCs found in the corpus correspond with respect to the form of prepositions contained in those PPCs, to dictionary data.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> The goal of this research project is to characterize the corpus distribution of TPPPs and prepositions occurring within PPCs and to quantitatively analyze the results. While the rst part of the  claim that unaccented postprepositional pronouns are possible only in the accusative.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="5">  project has already been completed, the second one is still in progress. Section 2 presents the results of the corpus examination in regard to the distribution of pronouns and prepositions within PPCs, Section 3 outlines the proposal of a quantitative analysis of the results presented in Section 2, and Section 4 sums up the discussion and outlines future goals.</Paragraph>
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