Optimality theory:
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Main Author: Kager, René (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Multiple
Published: Cambridge, U.K. Cambridge University Press 1999
Series:Cambridge textbooks in linguistics
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Online Access:FAW01
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-444) and indexes
1. Conflicts in grammars -- 2. The typology of structural changes -- 3. Syllable structure and economy -- 4. Metrical structure and parallelism -- 5. Correspondence in reduplication -- 6. Output-to-output correspondence
7. Learning OT grammars -- 8. Extensions to syntax -- 9. Residual issues
This is an introduction to Optimality Theory, whose central idea is that surface forms of language reflect resolutions of conflicts between competing constraints. Exercises accompany chapters 1-7, and there are sections on further reading. Optimality Theory will be welcomed by any linguist with a knowledge of derivational Generative Phonology
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 452 pages)
ISBN:0511039778
0511053843
051181240X
0521580196
0521589800
9780511039775
9780511053849
9780511812408
9780521580199
9780521589802

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