Formal and Empirical Issues in Optimality Theoretic Syntax (Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1575862441 ISBN 13: 9781575862446

Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf, 2001

Synopsis

Formal and Empirical Issues in Optimality Theoretic Syntax is a collection of selected works which involve a new approach to syntax by bringing together Optimality Theory (OT) and Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG). The volume's importance is precisely in this new approach, which differs greatly from other OT approaches to syntax. The book first develops formal foundations of Optimality Theory. The works within the volume then go on to analyze certain kinds of linguistic data, as well as more technical questions of the formal foundations, and of the utility of the approach in (industrial) natural language processing applications.

Peter Sells is associate professor in the department of linguistics at Stanford University. Joan Bresnan is professor of linguistics at Stanford University. Miriam Butt is a researcher at University of Konstanz. Tracy Holloway King is a researcher at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.

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Book Description

This is a collection of papers which involve a new approach to syntax bringing together Optimality Theory (OT) and Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG). Its importance is precisely in this new approach, which differs from other OT approaches to syntax.

About the Author

Miriam Butt is professor for general and computational linguistics at the University of Konstanz.

Edition details

• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1575862441
• ISBN 13: 9781575862446
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 429
• Editor: Sells Peter, Bresnan Joan, Butt Miriam, King Tracy Holloway