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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. Content: Chapter 1 Preliminaries (pages 1–10): Chapter 2 Optimality in Grammar: Core Syllabification in Imdlawn Tashlhiyt Berber (pages 14–26): Chapter 3 Generalization?Forms in Domination Hierarchies I: Do Something Only When: Triggering, or the Theory of Economy (pages 27–38): Chapter 4 Generalization?Forms in Domination Hierarchies II: Do Something Except When: Blocking, or the Theory of Profuseness (pages 39–79): Chapter 5 The Construction of Grammar in Optimality Theory (pages 80–99): Chapter 6 Syllable Structure Typology: The CV Theory (pages 105–118): Chapter 7 Constraint Interaction in Lardil Phonology

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Author

ALAN PRINCE AND PAUL SMOLENSKY

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781405119320

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Linguistics, Language Learning, Literary Fiction