Is the best good enough?
optimality and competition in syntax
by Danny Fox and David Pesetsky
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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.
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Is the Best Good Enough? Optimality and Competition in Syntax
May 29, 1998, The MIT Press
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Is the best good enough?: optimality and competition in syntax
1998, MIT Press
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Is the Best Good Enough? Optimality and Competition in Syntax
April 3, 1998, The MIT Press
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers presented at a workshop held May 19-21, 1995, Massachusetts Institue of Technology.
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