Download or read book Romance in Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) written by Sergio Balari and published by Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications. This book was released on 1998-07-13 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.