@InProceedings{delmonte:2016:CL4LC,
  author    = {Delmonte, Rodolfo},
  title     = {Syntactic and Lexical Complexity in Italian Noncanonical Structures},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity (CL4LC)},
  month     = {December},
  year      = {2016},
  address   = {Osaka, Japan},
  publisher = {The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee},
  pages     = {67--78},
  abstract  = {In this paper we will be dealing with different levels of complexity in the
	processing of Italian, a Romance language inheriting many properties from Latin
	which make it an almost free word order language . The paper is concerned with
	syntactic complexity as measurable on the basis of the cognitive parser that
	incrementally builds up a syntactic representation to be used by the semantic
	component. The theory behind will be LFG and parsing preferences will be used
	to justify one choice both from a principled and a processing point of view.
	LFG is a transformationless theory in which there is no deep structure separate
	from surface syntactic structure. This is partially in accordance with
	constructional theories in which noncanonical structures containing
	non-argument functions FOCUS/TOPIC are treated as multifunctional constituents.
	Complexity is computed on a processing basis following suggestions made by
	Blache and demonstrated by Kluender and Chesi},
  url       = {http://aclweb.org/anthology/W16-4108}
}