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Author : Hans Broekhuis,Ralf Vogel
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : 9783940793614
Author : Hans Broekhuis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Generative grammar
ISBN : 3939469548
Author : Hans Broekhuis,Ralf Vogel
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCBK:C110202488
This volume focuses on the role of the postulated derivational and filtering devices in current linguistic theory and aims to promote the exchange of ideas between the proponents of MP and OT in order to evaluate the role of these devices in the two frameworks. It sheds more light on the tenability of the often proclaimed opinion that MP and OT are incompatible frameworks given that the explanatory power of the former mainly resides on the generative device whereas the explanatory power of the latter mainly resides in the filtering device. Papers from various perspectives discuss and compare the two devices in the two frameworks. The volume thus collects a large number of the arguments in favour of more a strictly derivational approach, a more strictly filtering approach, or a more hybrid approach. The book will be of interest to any researcher or advanced student in Linguistic Theory. It is more specifically directed to syntacticians working within the current frameworks that have developed from Chomsky's minimalist program (MP) and Prince and Smolensky's Optimality Theory (OT).
Author : Arthur Stepanov,Gisbert Fanselow,Ralf Vogel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197365
The volume is a collection of 12 papers which focus on empirical and theoretical issues associated with syntactic phenomena falling under the rubric of Relativized Minimality (Rizzi 1990) or, in more recent terms, Minimal Link Condition (MLC, Chomsky 1995). The bulk of the papers are based on the ideas presented at the Workshop "Minimal Link Effects in Minimalist and Optimality Theoretic Syntax" which took place at the University of Potsdam on March 21-22, 2002. All contributors are prominent specialists in the topic of syntactic Minimality. The empirical phenomena brought to bear on Minimality/MLC in the present volume include, but not limited to: Superiority effects in multiple wh-questions, including those with 'D-linked' wh-phrase(s) (Müller, Haida, Haider) Stylistic Fronting in Germanic and Romance (Fisher, Poole) Transitive sentences in Hindi-type ergative languages (Stepanov) Word order 'freezing' effects in double-nominative constructions in Korean (Lee) Double object constructions in Greek (Anagnostoupoulou) Remnant constituent displacement in German and Japanese (Hale and Legendre) Nine of the proposed accounts are couched in the Minimalist framework (Chomsky 1995, 2000, 2001), three in the framework of Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993). Thematically, the contributions divide into three groups addressing the following major questions: How can apparent violations of syntactic Minimality/MLC be accounted for? (Haida, Stepanov, Poole, Fisher, Anagnostopoulou) What is the status of MLC? Is it a primitive or a theorem in the grammar? (Müller, Fanselow, Lechner, Vogel, Lee, Haider) Can Minimality phenomena shed decisive evidence in favor of a derivational (Minimalist type) or a representational (Optimality theory like) framework? (Hale and Legendre, Haider)
Author : Reinhard Blutner,Anne Bezuidenhout,Richard Breheny,Sam Glucksberg,Francesca Happé
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230501409
Ten leading scholars provide exacting research results and a reliable and accessible introduction to the new field of optimality theoretic pragmatics. The book includes a general introduction that overviews the foundations of this new research paradigm. The book is intended to satisfy the needs of students and professional researchers interested in pragmatics and optimality theory, and will be of particular interest to those exploring the interfaces of formal pragmatics with grammar, semantics, philosophy of language, information theory and cognitive psychology.
Author : John J. McCarthy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 052179644X
Explains and explores the central premises of OT and the results of their praxis.
Author : Rene Kager
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999-06-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521589800
This is an introduction to Optimality Theory, whose central idea is that surface forms of language reflect resolutions of conflicts between competing constraints. A surface form is 'optimal' if it incurs the least serious violations of a set of constraints, taking into account their hierarchical ranking. Languages differ in the ranking of constraints; and any violations must be minimal. 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. It also reviews in detail a selection of the considerable research output which OT has already produced. 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.
Author : Tibor Kiss
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110363708
The handbook offers an overview of syntactic theory and analysis, in terms of different theories, different languages, and different methods. The Handbook presents the state of art in syntactic analysis, also dealing with the methodology employed, and the rules of argumentation required to achieve such analyses for a wide range of phenomena.
Author : Joost Dekkers (linguiste),Frank Reinoud Hugo van der Leeuw,Jeroen Maarten van de Weijer
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0198238444
Optimality theory has revolutionized phonological theory, and its insights are now being applied to other central aspects of language. This book presents the results of research as applied to syntax/language acquisition, as well as considering the main lines of attack by rule-based grammarians.
Author : D.E. Holt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401001953
This work discusses many optimization and linguistic issues in great detail. It treats the history of a variety of languages, including English, French, Germanic, Galician/ Portuguese, Latin, Russian, and Spanish and shows that the application of Optimality Theory allows for innovative and improved analyses. It contains a complete bibliography on OT and language change. It is of interest to historical linguists, researchers into OT and linguistic theory, and phonologists and syntacticians with an interest in historical change.
Author : Randall Hendrick
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780470758199
Minimalist Syntax is a collection of essays that analyze major syntactic processes in a variety of languages, all unified by their perspective from within the Minimalist Program. Introduces important concepts in the Minimalist approach to syntactic theory. Emphasizes empirical consequences of the Minimalist approach through innovative analyses. Highlights the importance of Minimalist syntax in explaining features of natural languages. Includes contributions from leading syntacticians.
Author : Jairo Nunes
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027289537
This collection of papers discusses some of the major syntactic properties of Brazilian Portuguese from a minimalist perspective. The volume focuses on movement and empty category issues and brings new empirical material on a variety of topics (null subjects and finite control, possessive and existential constructions, factive constructions, relative clauses, null objects and stress shift, preposition duplication, VP topicalization, and ellipsis). The book is of interest to a wide spectrum of linguists working on theoretical and comparative syntax.
Author : Peter Kosta,Steven L. Franks,Teodora Radeva-Bork,Lilia Schürcks
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027270061
The Minimalist Program is just that, a “program”. It is a challenge for syntacticians to reexamine the constructs of their models and ask what is minimally needed in order to accomplish the essential task of syntax – interfacing between form and meaning. This volume pushes Minimalism to its empirical and theoretical limits, and brings together some of the most innovative and radical ideas to have emerged in the attempt to reduce Universal Grammar to the bare output conditions imposed by these conceptually necessary interfaces. The contributors include both leading theoreticians and well-known practitioners of minimalism; the papers thus both respond to broad questions about the nature of human language and the architecture of grammar, and provide careful analyses of specific linguistic problems. Overarching issues of syntactic computation are considered, such as the role of formal features, the mechanics of movement and the property of displacement, the construction of words and phrases, the nature of Spell-Out, and, more generally, the forces driving operations. The volume has the potential to reach a wide audience, favoring inter-theoretical debate with a concise state-of-the-art panorama on Minimalism and advances about its future developments.
Author : Juan Uriagereka
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191635588
Since Juan Uriagereka originated the multiple spell-out model in 1999 it has been one of the most influential lines of research in syntactic theorizing. The model simplified a crucial element of the minimalist account of language making it a more accurate reflection of syntax and its acquisition. In this book he explores important consequences of the multiple spell-out hypothesis and of the linked notion of cyclicity. He combines the latest thinking in linguistics with perspectives drawn from physics, biology, and animal behaviour, aiming thereby to advance the field first described by Noam Chomsky as biolinguistics. Without simplifying them Professor Uriagereka seeks to present the issues and their broader biological significance clearly and succinctly in ways that are accessible to scholars from adjacent fields with a limited background in linguistics. His analogies and comparisons between linguistic and non-linguistic phenomena (such as the syntax of birdsong) will be of value to both non-linguists and linguists, whose overriding concerns with narrow linguistic questions may sometimes obscure their broader biological significance. The subjects discussed in the book include the linearization of structure, the punctuated nature of a derivation (the multiple spell-out model), cyclicity and its consequences for locality, and the definition of c-command and its relevance to various types of grammatical dependency. The author discusses the evolutionary implications of his work, considering, for example, whether the punctuated nature of the derivation is a resolution of conflicting demands that yield an equilibrium found in nature more generally. This groundbreaking book will appeal to a wide range of readers in linguistics and cognitive science.
Author : Hans Götzsche
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527521063
The Meaning of Language illustrates the diversity of approaches in linguistics. The volume revolves around two main chapters authored by two internationally acknowledged Scandinavian scholars, Hans Basbøll and Stig Eliasson. Basbøll’s contribution is the most detailed and coherent English-language presentation of the pioneering Danish 18th century linguist Jens Pedersen Høysgaard and his work, and Eliasson explores the intricacy of the issue of whether morphology can be borrowed between languages and the mechanisms of actual borrowings. The other contributions illustrate which topics may be taken up by language scholars today, from metaphor, regional phonology, morphology and syntax, language learning, discourse analysis, intensifier semantics, and Indo-European, to the interface between language and logic. The approaches invoke a wide spectrum of theoretical models and assumptions.
