Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar

English

ISBN: 0470759399

EAN: 9780470759394

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Release Date: 11/14/2007

Synopsis: This book is the final version of the widely-circulated 1993 Technical Report that introduces a conception of grammar in which well-formedness is defined as optimality with respect to a ranked set of universal constraints.

• Final version of the widely circulated 1993 Technical Report that was the seminal work in Optimality Theory, never before available in book format.
  
• Serves as an excellent introduction to the principles and practice of Optimality Theory.
  
• Offers proposals and analytic commentary that suggest many directions for further development for the professional.

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Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar

Illustrated: No

Format: eBook - PDF

Pages: 304