Author : Sergio Balari
Release : 1998
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Romance in HPSG by : Sergio Balari
Download or read book Romance in HPSG written by Sergio Balari. This book was released on 1998. 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.