Modeling Ungrammaticality in Optimality TheoryEdited by: Curt Rice, Sylvia Blaho
Series: Advances in Optimality Theory Hardback Price £75.00/$135.00 Paperback Price £26.95/$45.00 |    |
Description
Modeling Ungrammaticality in Optimality Theory presents a collection of papers in phonology and syntax on the topic of ineffability, or absolute ungrammaticality. The papers all contribute new analyses of carefully presented cases, making the book useful for researchers exploring ineffability from any theoretical perspective. The theoretical context for the papers is the analytical challenge which these cases present for Optimality Theory. The architecture of OT takes an input and maps it onto its optimal output. But the cases analyzed in these papers would seem to invite analyses in which an input has no output whatsoever, not even an imperfect one. The papers develop various strategies for modeling this phenomenon, building on proposals in the literature such as the null parse, control theory, the null output, optimal gaps, string-based correspondence theory, and others.
Modeling Ungrammaticality in Optimality Theory presents a collection of papers in phonology and syntax on the topic of ineffability, or absolute ungrammaticality. The papers all contribute new analyses of carefully presented cases, making the book useful for researchers exploring ineffability from any theoretical perspective. The theoretical context for the papers is the analytical challenge which these cases present for Optimality Theory. The architecture of OT takes an input and maps it onto its optimal output. But the cases analyzed in these papers would seem to invite analyses in which an input has no output whatsoever, not even an imperfect one. The papers develop various strategies for modeling this phenomenon, building on proposals in the literature such as the null parse, control theory, the null output, optimal gaps, string-based correspondence theory, and others.
Contents
1. Curt Rice and Sylvia Blaho: Modeling ungrammaticality
Part I: Architecture
2. Matthew Wolf (University of Massachusetts) and John J. McCarthy (University of Massachusetts): Less than zero: correspondence and the null output
3. Marc van Oostendorp (The Meertens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences): Dutch diminutives and the question mark
4. Orhan Orgun (UC Davis) and Ronald Sprouse (UC Berkeley): Hard constraints in Optimality Theory
Part II: Paradigms
5. Adam Albright (MIT): Lexical and morphological conditioning of paradigm gaps
6. Outi Bat-El (Tel Aviv University): A gap in the feminine paradigm of Hebrew: a consequence of identity avoidance in the suffix domain
7. Péter Rebrus (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and Miklós Törkenczy (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Covert and overt defectiveness in paradigms
Part III: Ineffability in Syntax
8. Géraldine Legendre (Johns Hopkins University): The neutralization approach to ineffability in syntax
9. Ralf Vogel (University of Potsdam): Wh-Islands: A View from Correspondence Theory
Specifications
| ISBN-10 (Hardback) | 1845532155 |
| ISBN-13 (Hardback) | 9781845532154 |
| Price (Hardback) | £75.00/$135.00 |
| ISBN-10 (Paperback) | 1845532163 |
| ISBN-13 (Paperback) | 9781845532161 |
| Price (Paperback) | £26.95/$45.00 |
| Publication Date | January 2010 |
| Pages | 304 |
| Size | 234 x 156mm |
| Readership | scholars |
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