Romance in Hpsg

by Sergio Balari, Luca Dini

Overview

This book describes several aspects of syntax and semantics of romance languages assuming the point of view of a constraint-based, non-transformational linguistic theory, i.e. Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). Besides the widening of the empirical coverage of HPSG the theory, its main significance consists in a refinement of the theory itself, on the basis of data from romance languages. It contains essays discussing phenomena from Catalan, French, Italian and Spanish.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781575860831
Publisher:	Center for the Study of Language and Inf
Publication date:	06/28/1997
Series:	Csli Lecture Notes Series
Pages:	425
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. When HPSG speaks romance; 2. French Bounded Dependencies; 3. Determiners as functors; 4. NP structure in Italian; 5. Prepositions in Catalan; 6. Pronouns, Variables, and Extraction; 7. Null complements in Italian; 8. English missing objects and Italian restructuring; 9. Decomposing Italian clitics; 10. Thematically bound adjuncts; Index.