Modeling Ungrammaticality in Optimality Theory / Edition 1

by Sylvia Blaho, Curt Rice

Overview

Modeling Ungrammaticality in Optimality Theory presents a collection of papers in phonology and syntax on the topic of ineffability, or absolute ungrammaticality. The papers all contribute new analyses of carefully presented cases, making the book useful for researchers exploring ineffability from any theoretical perspective. The theoretical context for the papers is the analytical challenge which these cases present for Optimality Theory. The architecture of OT takes an input and maps it onto its optimal output. But the cases analyzed in these papers would seem to invite analyses in which an input has no output whatsoever, not even an imperfect one. The papers develop various strategies for modeling this phenomenon, building on proposals in the literature such as the null parse, control theory, the null output, optimal gaps, string-based correspondence theory, and others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781845532154
Publisher:	Equinox Publishing
Publication date:	12/30/2009
Series:	Advances in Optimality Theory
Pages:	302
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

Table of Contents

Adam Albright (MIT): Lexical and morphological conditioning of paradigm gaps
Outi Bat-El (Tel Aviv University): A gap in the feminine paradigm of Hebrew: a consequence of identity avoidance in the suffix domain
Geraldine Legendre (Johns Hopkins University): The neutralization approach to ineffability in syntax
Orhan Orgun (UC Davis) and Ronald Sprouse (UC Berkeley): Hard constraints in Optimality Theory
Marc van Oostendorp (The Meertens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences): Dutch diminutives and the question mark
Matthew Wolf (University of Massachesetts) and John J. McCarthy (University of Massachusetts): Less than zero: correspondence and the null output
Peter Rebrus (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and Miklos Torkenczy (Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Covert and overt defectiveness in paradigms
Ralf Vogel (University of Potsdam): Wh-Islands: A View from Correspondence Theory