Linguistic Derivations and Filtering - Minimalism and Optimality Theory - Hans Broekhuis
2. Derivations and evaluations
Linguistic Derivations and Filtering - Minimalism and Optimality Theory - Hans Broekhuis
Hans Broekhuis [+]
Meertens Institute
Hans Broekhuis researches at the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam. He is author of Derivations and Evaluations: Object Shift in the Germanic Languages (Mouton de Gruyter, 2008) and editor/author of the seven-volume Syntax of Dutch (Amsterdam University Press, 2012-6).
Description
This chapter introduces the so-called derivation-and-evaluation framework and illustrates it by means of a topic that was also discussed in the introduction -- Object Shift. It shows that Chomsky's proposal can be readily rephrased in optimality-theoretic terms and that this has a wide range of empirical consequences.