Optimality Theory (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) - Softcover

Kager, Rene

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9780521589802: Optimality Theory (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
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ISBN 10: 0521589800 ISBN 13: 9780521589802
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1999

Synopsis

This is an introduction to Optimality Theory, whose central idea is that surface forms of language reflect resolutions of conflicts between competing constraints. The book does not limit its empirical scope to phonological phenomena, but also contains chapters on the learnability of OT grammars; OT's implications for syntax; and other issues such as opacity. Exercises accompany chapters 1-7, and there are sections on further reading. Optimality Theory will be welcomed by any linguist with a basic knowledge of derivational Generative Phonology.

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About the Author

Rene Kager is Associate Professor of Language Development at Utrecht University. His books include A Metrical Theory of Stress and Destressing in Dutch (1989), The Prosody-Morphology Interface (with H. van der Hulst and W. Zonneveld, Cambridge 1999) and Optimality Theory (Cambridge, 1999).

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Text: English

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521589800
ISBN 13 
9780521589802
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Number of pages
452
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