Is the Best Good Enough?  Optimality and Competition in Syntax
Contributors: Pilar Barbosa (Editor); Danny Fox (Editor); Paul Hagstrom (Editor); Martha McGinnis (Editor); David Pesetsky (Editor)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: May 29, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780262522496
Subjects: Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language; Grammar; Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Congresses; Grammar, Comparative and gener; Grammar, Comparative and general; Optimality theory (Linguistics; Optimality theory (Linguistics); Syntax
First sentence: The central assumption of modern linguistics is the possibility of explanation.