First and second person pronouns not distinguished for case

[daniellerossetti]

The pronoun "tu" isn't differentiated from its object form "ti". Same goes for "eu" and "mim".

$ echo "tu" | apertium -d . por-morph
^tu/tu<prn><tn><p2><mf><sg>$^./.<sent>$
$ echo "ti" | apertium -d . por-morph
^ti/ti<prn><tn><p2><mf><sg>$^./.<sent>$
$ echo "eu" | apertium -d . por-morph
^eu/eu<prn><tn><p1><mf><sg>$^./.<sent>$
$ echo "mim" | apertium -d . por-morph
^mim/mim<prn><tn><p1><mf><sg>$^./.<sent>$

[hectoralos]

I can't see any problem. There is no case label for Romance languages in Apertium. Compare, for instance, with Spanish:

$ echo "tú" | apertium -d . spa-morph
^tú/tú<prn><tn><p2><mf><sg>$^./.<sent>$
$ echo "ti" | apertium -d . spa-morph
^ti/ti<prn><tn><p2><mf><sg>$^./.<sent>$

[jonorthwash]

@hectoralos, I'm curious, then, how the correct form is generated.

[hectoralos]

@jonorthwash, using the lemma. For instance, in a spa-ita bidix it should be something like:

<e><p><l>tú<s n="prn"/><s n="tn"/></l>  <r>tu<s n="prn"/><s n="tn"/></r></p></e>
<e><p><l>ti<s n="prn"/><s n="tn"/></l>  <r>ti<s n="prn"/><s n="tn"/></r></p></e>

In the beginning I also expected a case label, but this is how things were done, and we all continue to use them this way. As a matter of fact, I didn't find it necessary until today. Often in Romance languages p1 and p2 pronouns in both sg and pl for accusative and dative are the same. So, there is no work for disambiguation, because it has not been necessary until now. In Italian, maybe this would be useful, since the same pronouns can be used for nominative and accusative. I'll see how I''ll get through.