Optimality-theoretic syntax / edited by Geraldine Legendre, Jane Grimshaw, and Sten Vikner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Legendre, Géraldine, 1953-

Grimshaw, Jane B. (Jane Barbara), 1951-

Vikner, Sten.

Johns Hopkins University.

University of Maryland at College Park.

Series:

Language, speech, and communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax--Congresses.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Optimality theory (Linguistics)--Congresses.

Optimality theory (Linguistics).

Markedness (Linguistics)--Congresses.

Markedness (Linguistics).

Genre:

Congresses.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xviii, 548 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2001]

Summary:

Peter Ackema, Judith Aissen, Eric Bakovic, Joan Bresnan, Hye-Won Choi, Jo?o Costa, Jane Grimshaw, Edward Keer, G?raldine Legendre, Gereon M?ller, Ad Neeleman, Vieri Samek-Lodovici, Peter Sells, Margaret Speas, Sten Vikner, Colin Wilson, Ellen Woolford.

Contents:

An introduction to optimality theory in syntax / Géraldine Legendre

Competition between syntax and morphology / Peter Ackema and Ad Neeleman

Markedness and subject choice in optimality theory / Judith Aissen

Optionality and ineffability / Eric Baković and Edward Keer

The emergence of the unmarked pronoun / Joan Bresnan

Binding and discourse prominence : reconstruction in "focus" scrambling / Hye-Won Choi

The emergence of unmarked word order / João Costa

Optimal clitic positions and the lexicon in romance clitic systems / Jane Grimshaw

Masked second-position effects and the linearization of functional features / Géraldine Legendre

Order preservation, parallel movement, and the emergence of the unmarked / Gereon Müller

Crosslinguistic typologies in optimality theory / Vieri Samek-Lodovici

Form and function in the typology of grammatical voice systems / Peter Sells

Constraints on null pronouns / Margaret Speas

V⁰-to-I⁰ movement and do-insertion in optimality theory / Sten Vikner

Bidirectional optimization and the theory of anaphora / Colin Wilson

Case patterns / Ellen Woolford.

Notes:

"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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0262122359

9780262122351

026262138X

9780262621380

OCLC:

44727925