Romance in Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) - Brossura

Balari, Sergio; Dini, Luca

 
9781575860824: Romance in Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG)

Sinossi

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.

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Descrizione del libro

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). It contains essays discussing phenomena from Catalan, French, Italian and Spanish.

Contenuti

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.

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9781575860831: Romance in Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG)

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ISBN 10:  157586083X ISBN 13:  9781575860831
Casa editrice: The Center for the Study of Lang..., 1998
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