Optimality Theory (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)

Kager, Rene

ISBN 10: 0521589800 / ISBN 13: 9780521589802

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Optimality Theory (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521589800
• ISBN 13: 9780521589802
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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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.

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).