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Publisher:	Mit Pr	ISBN-10:	0262522497
Subject:	Reference	ISBN-13:	9780262522496
Topic:	--	Format:	Paperback
Language:	--	Publication Year:	1998
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Series:	Mit Working Papers in Linguistics
Editor:	Danny Fox, David Pesetsky, Martha McGinnis, Paul Hagstrom, Pilar Barbosa

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Length:	450 pages
Height:	10.0 in.
Width:	7.3 in.
Thickness:	1.2 in.
Weight:	33.6 oz.

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Recent developments in linguistic theory have led to a reconsideration of the role of optimality in the overall architecture of the grammar. Emerging from this research is the idea that different components of the grammar interact to yield the best choice from a set of candidate derivations. This idea departs from traditional approaches to the output of linguistic levels in generative grammar, in which rules, principles, and constraints interact to determine the grammatical status of each linguistic object independent of the status of possible competitors. In the past five years, interest in the linguistic role of optimality has been sparked by the sharpened notions of "economy" in Chomsky's Minimalist Program and by Prince and Smolensky's Optimality Theory, originally developed for phonology. Work on these ideas has raised many new questions. These include new versions of an old debate between constraints on derivations and constraints on representations, and entirely new questions about the nature of the candidate set, as well as questions about learnability and computability. Writing from a broad range of empirical and theoretical perspectives, the contributors to this volume examine the role of competition in syntax and in syntactic interfaces with semantics, phonology, and pragmatics, as well as implications for language acquisition and processing. Contributors: Peter Ackema, Eric J. Bakovic, Joan Bresnan, Kevin Broihier, Luigi Burzio, Noam Chomsky, Danny Fox, Edward Gibson, Jane Grimshaw, Yookyung Kim, Geraldine Legendre, Masanori Nakamura, Ad Neeleman, Mark Newson, David Pesetsky, Stanley Peters, Geoffrey Poole, Douglas Pulleyblank, Vieri Samek-Lodovici, Paul Smolensky, Bruce Tesar, William J. Turkel, Colin Wilson. A copublication of The MIT Press and MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.

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Is the Best Good Enough? Optimality and Competition in Syntax

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ISBN:	0262522497
Publication Date:	1998-05-29
Publisher:	The MIT Press

Pages:	440
Height:	1.0600 inches
Width:	7.1900 inches
Weight:	2.3000 pounds

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