Optimality Theory Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar |
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| Author:
| Prince, Alan
Smolensky, Paul |
| ISBN: | 978-0-470-79970-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2008 |
| Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
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| Imprint: | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Book Format: | Digital download |
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This book is the final version of the widely-circulated 1993 Technical Report that introduces a conception of grammar in which well-formedness is defined as optimality with respect to a ranked set of universal constraints.
- Final version of the widely circulated 1993 Technical Report that was the seminal work in Optimality Theory, never before available in book format.
- Serves as an excellent introduction to the...
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This book is the final version of the widely-circulated 1993 Technical Report that introduces a conception of grammar in which well-formedness is defined as optimality with respect to a ranked set of universal constraints.
- Final version of the widely circulated 1993 Technical Report that was the seminal work in Optimality Theory, never before available in book format.
- Serves as an excellent introduction to the principles and practice of Optimality Theory.
- Offers proposals and analytic commentary that suggest many directions for further development for the professional.