Linguistic Derivations and Filtering - Minimalism and Optimality Theory - Hans Broekhuis
6. Extremely local optimization
Linguistic Derivations and Filtering - Minimalism and Optimality Theory - Hans Broekhuis
Fabian Heck [+]
Universitat Leipzig
Institut fur Linguistik
Gereon Müller [+]
Universität Leipzig
Gereon Müller is Professor of General Linguistics at Universität Leipzig.
Description
This chapter distinguishes structure-building features, which trigger Merge, and probe features, which trigger Agree. Empirical evidence in favor of local optimization is provided by cross-linguistic differences in case assignment to internal and external arguments, suggesting that many analyses that involve larger domains can be rephrased in terms of local optimalzation while acknowledging that there may be certain analyses that require larger optimization domains.