Romance in HPSG

Download or read book Romance in HPSG written by Sergio Balari and published by Stanford Univ Center for the Study. This book was released on 1998 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume 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. The book contains essays discussing phenomena from Catalan, French, Italian and Spanish.