@inproceedings{delmonte-2016-syntactic,
    title = "Syntactic and Lexical Complexity in {I}talian Noncanonical Structures",
    author = "Delmonte, Rodolfo",
    editor = "Brunato, Dominique  and
      Dell{'}Orletta, Felice  and
      Venturi, Giulia  and
      Fran{\c{c}}ois, Thomas  and
      Blache, Philippe",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Linguistic Complexity ({CL}4{LC})",
    month = dec,
    year = "2016",
    address = "Osaka, Japan",
    publisher = "The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/W16-4108/",
    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"
}