Optimality-Theoretic Syntax (Language, Speech, and Communication) - Hardcover

Johns Hopkins University; University Of Maryland At College Park

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262122359 ISBN 13: 9780262122351

Verlag: MIT Press, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Recent work in theoretical syntax has revealed the strong explanatory power of thenotions of economy, competition, and optimization. Building grammars entirely upon these elements,Optimality Theory syntax provides a theory of universal grammar with a formally precise and stronglyrestricted theory of universal typology: cross-linguistic variation arises exclusively from theconflict among universal principles.Beginning with a general introduction to Optimality Theorysyntax, this volume provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the art, as represented by thework of the leading developers of the theory. The broad range of topics treated includesmorphosyntax (case, inflection, voice, and cliticization), the syntax of reference (control,anaphora, and pronominalization), the gammar of clauses (complementizers and their absence), andgrammatical and discourse effects in word order. Among the theoretical themes running throughout arethe interplay between faithfulness and markedness, and various questions of typology and ofinventory.

Contributors: Peter Ackema, Judith Aissen, Eric Bakovic, Joan Bresnan,Hye-Won Choi, João Costa, Jane Grimshaw, Edward Keer, Géraldine Legendre, Gereon Müller, AdNeeleman, Vieri Samek-Lodovici, Peter Sells, Margaret Speas, Sten Vikner, Colin Wilson, EllenWoolford.

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Sten Vikner is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and of German Linguistics at the University of Stuttgart.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0262122359
• ISBN 13: 9780262122351
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 548
• Herausgeber: Legendre Geraldine, Grimshaw Jane B., Vikner Sten
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