Optimality-theoretic syntax
Subtitle: a declarative approach
By: Jonas Kuhn.
Series: Studies in constraint-based lexicalism
Publisher: CSLI Publications, Center for the Study of Language and Information
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.; Optimality theory (Linguistics); Lexical-functional grammar.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-227) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction ; 1.2 The foundations of optimality theory; title: 2.1 Conflicting violable constraints ; 2.2 Factorial typology and the grounding of constraints ; 2.3 Summary; title: 3 some observations about optimality-theoretic syntax; title: 3.1 On the motivation of syntactic OT constraints ; 3.2 Faithfulness violations in phonology and syntax ; 3.3 Learning and the character of the input ; 3.4 Summary; title: 4. The formalization of OT syntax in the LFG framework ; 4.1 Background on the lexical-functional grammar (LFG) formalism ; 4.2 Optimality-theoretic LFG: the overall architecture ; 4.3 Candidate generation and the inviolable principles ; 4.4 The violable constraints: markedness constraints ; 4.5 Faithfulness constraints ; 4.6 Summary; title: 5. The direction of optimization ; 5.1 Varying the input to optimization ; 5.2 The character of comprehension-based optimization ; 5.3 Bidirectional optimization ; 5.4 Summary; title: 6. Computational OT syntax ; 6.1 Processing issues for OT-LFG ; 6.2. Decidability of OT-LFG generation ; 6.3 Recognition and parsing for OT-LFG ; 6.4 Summary; title: 7. Conclusion.