Is the best good enough? : optimality and competition in syntax
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Is the best good enough? : optimality and competition in syntax
（MIT working papers in linguistics）
MIT Press, c1998
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Papers presented at a workshop held May 19-21, 1995, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Includes bibliographical references and index
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: hc ISBN 9780262024488
内容説明
Developments in linguistic theory have led to a reconsideration of the role of optimality in the overall architecture of the grammar. Emerging from this research is the idea that different components of the grammar interact to yield the best choice from a set of candidate derivations. This idea departs from traditional approaches to the output of linguistic levels in generative grammar, in which rules, principles and constraints interact to determine the grammatical status of each linguistic object independent of the status of possible competitors. Interest in the linguistic role of optimality has been sparked by the sharpened notions of "economy" in Chomsky's minimalist programme and by Prince and Smolensky's optimality theory, originally developed for phonology. Work on these ideas has raised many questions. These include 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.
目次
- WHOT?, Peter Ackema and Ad Neeleman
- optimality and inversion in Spanish, Eric Bakovic
- morphology competes with syntax - explaining typological variation in weak crossover effects, Joan Bresman
- anaphora and soft constraints, Luigi Burzio
- some observation 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 less is more? faithfulness and minimal links in wh-chains, Geraldine 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.
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: pbk ISBN 9780262522496
内容説明
Recent developments in linguistic theory have led to a reconsideration of the role of optimality in the overall architecture of the grammar. Emerging from this research is the idea that different components of the grammar interact to yield the best choice from a set of candidate derivations. This idea departs from traditional approaches to the output of linguistic levels in generative grammar, in which rules, principles, and constraints interact to determine the grammatical status of each linguistic object independent of the status of possible competitors.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.
Contributors
Peter Ackema, Eric J. Bakovic, Joan Bresnan, Kevin Broihier, Luigi Burzio, Noam Chomsky, Danny Fox, Edward Gibson, Jane Grimshaw, Yookyung Kim, Geraldine Legendre, Masanori Nakamura, Ad Neeleman, Mark Newson, David Pesetsky, Stanley Peters, Geoffrey Poole, Douglas Pulleyblank, Vieri Samek-Lodovici, Paul Smolensky, Bruce Tesar, William J. Turkel, Colin Wilson
A copublication of The MIT Press and MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
目次
- WHOT?, Peter Ackema and Ad Neeleman
- optimality and inversion in Spanish, Eric Bakovic
- morphology competes with syntax - explaining typological variation in weak crossover effects, Joan Bresman
- anaphora and soft constraints, Luigi Burzio
- some observation 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 less is more? faithfulness and minimal links in wh-chains, Geraldine 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.
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