Modeling Ungrammaticality in Optimality Theory
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. January 2010
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-84553-215-4 (ISBN)
Description
"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, string-based correspondence theory, and others.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84553-215-4 (9781845532154)
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Additional editions
Curt Rice | Sylvia Blaho
Modeling Ungrammaticality in Optimality Theory
E-Book
01/2010
1st Edition
Equinox Publishing Ltd
€62.39
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Persons
University of Tromso, Norway
Content
1. Curt Rice and Sylvia Blaho: Modeling ungrammaticality Part I: Architecture 2. Matthew Wolf (University of Massachusetts) and John J. McCarthy (University of Massachusetts): Less than zero: correspondence and the null output 3. Marc van Oostendorp (The Meertens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences): Dutch diminutives and the question mark 4. Orhan Orgun (UC Davis) and Ronald Sprouse (UC Berkeley): Hard constraints in Optimality Theory Part II: Paradigms 5. Adam Albright (MIT): Lexical and morphological conditioning of paradigm gaps 6. Outi Bat-El (Tel Aviv University): A gap in the feminine paradigm of Hebrew: a consequence of identity avoidance in the suffix domain 7. Peter Rebrus (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and Miklos Torkenczy (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Covert and overt defectiveness in paradigms Part III: Ineffability in Syntax 8. Geraldine Legendre (Johns Hopkins University): The neutralization approach to ineffability in syntax 9. Ralf Vogel (University of Potsdam): Wh-Islands: A View from Correspondence Theory