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Although (in-)definiteness is semantically relevant in Polish, the language lacks explicit linguistic features for marking it. The paper presents the first quantitative, statistical evaluation of the correlation between word order and definiteness. Our results support previous qualitative theories about the influence of the verb-relative position on definiteness in Polish.
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Czardybon, A., Hellwig, O., Petersen, W. (2014). Statistical Analysis of the Interaction between Word Order and Definiteness in Polish. In: Przepiórkowski, A., Ogrodniczuk, M. (eds) Advances in Natural Language Processing. NLP 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8686. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10888-9_15
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