Optimality Theory ; Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar

Prince, Alan:

ISBN 10: 1405119330 / ISBN 13: 9781405119337

Editore: Blackwell Publishing, 2004

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289 p. Very good condition. Reading pages are clean and without markings. Slight signs of storage and use. Spine slightly light-margined. Spine edge slightly bumped. Book corners slightly bumped. Book edges slightly stained. Spine with reading grooves. Otherwise a good copy. 9781405119337 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 667.

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• Titolo: Optimality Theory ; Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar
• Editore: Blackwell Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1405119330
• ISBN 13: 9781405119337
• Rilegatura: Softcover
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Riassunto

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.

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• 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.

Informazioni sull?autore

Alan Prince is Professor of Linguistics and a member of the Cognitive Science Center at Rutgers University and is, along with Paul Smolensky, one of the founders of Optimality Theory. He has published in journals such as Linguistic Inquiry, Science, Cognition, and Critical Inquiry.

Paul Smolensky is Professor of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University. His publications include Learnability in Optimality Theory (with Bruce Tesar, 2000) and Mathematical Perspectives on Neural Networks (edited with Michael Mozer and David Rumelhart, 1996).