wh-agreement

Tue Apr 21 10:19:08 UTC 1998

You may look into one of my papers on wh- focus-topic constraints in
Italian where I use a procedure derived from extraposition variables
introduced in Prolog programming for DCG grammars by Pereira, which follows
early LFG proposals by Bresnan. Below is a list of papers concerned with my
proposal.

Delmonte, Rodolfo.  1982. Parsing Difficulties & Phonological Processing in
Italian, Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the European Chapter of ACL,
Geneva, 136-145.

Delmonte, Rodolfo.  1989.  L'interpretazione e la quantificazione nella
forma logica con LFG.  MS, University of Venice.

Delmonte, Rodolfo.  1991a.  Empty categories and functional features in
LFG.  Annali Di Ca' Foscari, 30(1-2):79--140.

Delmonte, Rodolfo.  1991b.  Grammatica e quantificazione in LFG. Quaderni
Patavini di Linguistica, 10:3--71.

Delmonte Rodolfo. 1992. Linguistic and Inferential Processing in Text
Analysis by Computer, UP, Padova.

As a matter of fact, there is also an implemented version of the ideas
purported in the paper in the form of DCG parser running on Mac that I can
make available to be downloaded from our website,
://byron.cgm.unive.it
Just let me know if you are interested in it.

Best regards.

Rodolfo Delmonte

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rodolfo delmonte Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Applied & Computational Linguistics
Section of Linguistic Studies
Ca' Garzoni-Moro, San Marco 3417
Universita' Ca' Foscari
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