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.
Prefactory Note.
Acknowledgments.
1. Preliminaries:.
Background and Overview.
Optimality.
Overall Structure of the Argument.
Overview of Part I.
2. Optimality in Grammar: Core Syllabification in Imdlawn Tashlhiyt Berber:.
The Heart of Dell & Elmedlaoui.
Optimality Theory.
Summary of discussion to date.
3. Generalization-Forms in Domination Hierarchies IBlocking and Triggering: Profuseness and Economy:.
Epenthetic Structure.
Do Something Only When: The Failure of Bottom-up Constructionism.
4. Generalization-Forms in Domination Hierarchies IIDo Something Except When: Blocking, or The Theory of Profuseness:.
Edge-Oriented Infixation.
Interaction of Weight Effects with Extrametricality.
Background: Prominence-Driven Stress Systems.
The Interaction of Weight and Extrametricality: ló4
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