Optimality-theoretic syntax
By: edited by Geraldine Legendre, Jane Grimshaw, and Sten Vikner.
Contributors: Legendre, Géraldine, 1953-; Grimshaw, Jane B. 1951-; Vikner, Sten.; Johns Hopkins University.; University of Maryland at College Park.
Series: Language, speech, and communication
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 548
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax -- Congresses.; Optimality theory (Linguistics) -- Congresses.; Markedness (Linguistics) -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A Bradford book."
Papers from a workshop sponsored in 1997 by Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland at College Park and other contributions.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments vii; title: Contributors ix; title: Overview xi; title: Chapter 1; title: An Introduction to Optimality Theory in Géraldine Legendre; title: Syntax 1; title: Chapter 2; title: Competition between Syntax and Peter Ackema and Ad Neeleman; title: Morphology 29; title: Chapter 3; title: Markedness and Subject Choice in Optimality Judith Aissen; title: Theory 61; title: Chapter 4; title: Optionality and Ineffability 97 Eric Bakovic and Edward Keer; title: Chapter 5; title: The Emergence of the Unmarked Joan Bresnan; title: Pronoun 113; title: Chapter 6; title: Binding and Discourse Prominence: Hye-Won Choi; title: Reconstruction in "Focus" Scrambling 143; title: Chapter 7; title: The Emergence of Unmarked Word Jo~ao Costa; title: Order 171; title: Chapter 8; title: Optimal Clitic Positions and the Lexicon in Jane Grimshaw; title: Romance Clitic Systems 205; title: Chapter 9; title: Masked Second-Position Effects and the Géraldine Legendre; title: Linearization of Functional Features 241; title: Chapter 10; title: Order Preservation, Parallel Movement, and Gereon Muiller; title: the Emergence of the Unmarked 279; title: Chapter 11; title: Crosslinguistic Typologies in Optimality Vieri Samek-Lodovici; title: Theory 315; title: Chapter 12; title: Form and Function in the Typology of Peter Sells; title: Grammatical Voice Systems 355; title: Chapter 13; title: Constraints on Null Pronouns 393 Margaret Speas; title: Chapter 14; title: V-to-I Movement and do-Insertion in Sten Vikner; title: Optimality Theory 427; title: Chapter 15; title: Bidirectional Optimization and the Theory of Colin Wilson; title: Anaphora 465; title: Chapter 16; title: Case Patterns 509 Ellen Woolford; title: Index 545.