Modeling Ungrammaticality in Optimality Theory (Advances in Optimality Theory) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845532163 ISBN 13: 9781845532161

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2010

Synopsis

Modeling Ungrammaticality in Optimality Theory presents a collection of papers in phonology and syntax on the topic of ineffability, or absolute ungrammaticality. The papers all contribute new analyses of carefully presented cases, making the book useful for researchers exploring ineffability from any theoretical perspective. The theoretical context for the papers is the analytical challenge which these cases present for Optimality Theory. The architecture of OT takes an input and maps it onto its optimal output. But the cases analyzed in these papers would seem to invite analyses in which an input has no output whatsoever, not even an imperfect one. The papers develop various strategies for modeling this phenomenon, building on proposals in the literature such as the null parse, control theory, the null output, optimal gaps,

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About the Author

Curt Rice is Director of the Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics at the University of TromsA , Norway. Sylvia Blaho is a graduate student at the University of TromsA , Norway.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845532163
• ISBN 13: 9781845532161
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Rice Curt, Blaho Sylvia