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| Material Type: | Conference publication |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Pilar Barbosa; et al |
| ISBN: | 0262024489 9780262024488 0262522497 9780262522496 |
| OCLC Number: | 37862749 |
| Notes: | Papers presented at a workshop held May 19-21, 1995, Massachusetts Institue of Technology. |
| Description: | vi, 450 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | WHOT? / Peter Ackema and Ad Neeleman -- Optimality and inversion in Spanish / Eric Baković -- Morphology competes with syntax : explaining typological variation in weak crossover effects / Joan Bresnan -- Anaphora and soft constraints / Luigi Burzio -- Some observations on economy in generative grammar / Noam Chomsky -- Locality in variable binding / Danny Fox -- Optimality theory and human sentence processing / Edward Gibson and Kevin Broihier -- Optimal subjects and subject universals / Jane Grimshaw and Vieri Samek-Lodovici -- Semantic and pragmatic context-dependence : the case of reciprocals / Yookyung Kim and Stanley Peters -- When is less more? Faithfulness and minimal links in wh-chains / Géraldine Legendre, Paul Smolensky, and Colin Wilson -- Reference set, minimal link condition, and parameterization / Masanori Nakamura -- On the nature of inputs and outputs : a case study of negation / Mark Newson -- Some optimality principles of sentence pronunciation / David Pesetsky -- Constraints on local economy / Geoffrey Poole -- The logical problem of language acquisition in optimality theory / Douglas Pulleyblank and William J. Turkel -- Error-driven learning in optimality theory via the efficient computation of optimal forms / Bruce B. Tesar. |
| Series Title: | MIT working papers in linguistics |
| Responsibility: | edited by Pilar Barbosa ... [et al.]. |
Abstract:
In the past five years, interest in the linguistic role of optimality has been sparked by the sharpened notions of "economy" in Chomsky's Minimalist Program and by Prince and Smolensky's Optimality Theory, originally developed for phonology. Work on these ideas has raised many new questions. These include new versions of an old debate between constraints on derivations and constraints on representations and entirely new questions about the nature of the candidate set, as well as questions about learnability and computability. Writing from a broad range of empirical and theoretical perspectives, the contributors to this volume examine the role of competition in syntax and in syntactic interfaces with semantics, phonology, and pragmatics, as well as implications for language acquisition and processing.
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