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This volume investigates the morphosyntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties of language, and the interactions between them, from the perspective of Optimality Theory. It integrates optimization processes into the formal and functional study of grammar, interpreting optimization as the result of conflicting, violable ranked constraints.
Géraldine Legendre is Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University. She co-developed, with Paul Smolensky, the soft constraint-based precursor to Optimality Theory and has played a major role in the development of OT in syntax since the early 1990s, focussing particularly on comparative studies of phenomena in syntax and at the syntax-semantics interface and on the modelling of early child syntax and code-switching. She is co-author of The Harmonic Mind (with Paul Smolensky; MIT Press, 2006) and co-editor of Optimality-Theoretic Syntax (with Jane Grimshaw and Sten Vikner; MIT Press, 2001). Michael T. Putnam is Associate Professor of German and Linguistics at Penn State University. His work focuses on gaining a better understanding of the cognitive architecture underlying the language faculty at the intersection of culture, grammar, and performance biases, and he has published widely on comparative Germanic linguistics, the morphosyntax-semantics interface, and bilingualism. He is the author of The Structural Design of Language (with Thomas S. Stroik; CUP, 2013) and editor of Studies in German-Language Islands (Benjamins, 2011). Henriëtte de Swart is Professor of French Linguistics and Semantics at Utrecht University. Her research is concerned with cross-linguistic variation at the syntax-semantics-pragmatic interface, looking specifically at tense and aspect, negation, indefinites, genericity, and bare nominals. Her publications include Introduction to Natural Language Semantics (University of Chicago Press, 1998), The Semantics of Incorporation (with Donka Farkas; CSLI, 2003), and Conflicts in Interpretation (with Petra Hendriks, Helen de Hoop, and Irene Krämer; Equinox, 2010). Erin Zaroukian is a postdoctoral fellow in the Human Research and Engineering Directorate of the US Army Research Laboratory, where her primary research is in human-computer collaboration. Her PhD work focused on formal semantics of approximation and hedging, which she continued, with an experimental focus, as a postdoctoral researcher in the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (École Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, CNRS).
Show moreThis volume investigates the morphosyntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties of language, and the interactions between them, from the perspective of Optimality Theory. It integrates optimization processes into the formal and functional study of grammar, interpreting optimization as the result of conflicting, violable ranked constraints.
Géraldine Legendre is Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University. She co-developed, with Paul Smolensky, the soft constraint-based precursor to Optimality Theory and has played a major role in the development of OT in syntax since the early 1990s, focussing particularly on comparative studies of phenomena in syntax and at the syntax-semantics interface and on the modelling of early child syntax and code-switching. She is co-author of The Harmonic Mind (with Paul Smolensky; MIT Press, 2006) and co-editor of Optimality-Theoretic Syntax (with Jane Grimshaw and Sten Vikner; MIT Press, 2001). Michael T. Putnam is Associate Professor of German and Linguistics at Penn State University. His work focuses on gaining a better understanding of the cognitive architecture underlying the language faculty at the intersection of culture, grammar, and performance biases, and he has published widely on comparative Germanic linguistics, the morphosyntax-semantics interface, and bilingualism. He is the author of The Structural Design of Language (with Thomas S. Stroik; CUP, 2013) and editor of Studies in German-Language Islands (Benjamins, 2011). Henriëtte de Swart is Professor of French Linguistics and Semantics at Utrecht University. Her research is concerned with cross-linguistic variation at the syntax-semantics-pragmatic interface, looking specifically at tense and aspect, negation, indefinites, genericity, and bare nominals. Her publications include Introduction to Natural Language Semantics (University of Chicago Press, 1998), The Semantics of Incorporation (with Donka Farkas; CSLI, 2003), and Conflicts in Interpretation (with Petra Hendriks, Helen de Hoop, and Irene Krämer; Equinox, 2010). Erin Zaroukian is a postdoctoral fellow in the Human Research and Engineering Directorate of the US Army Research Laboratory, where her primary research is in human-computer collaboration. Her PhD work focused on formal semantics of approximation and hedging, which she continued, with an experimental focus, as a postdoctoral researcher in the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (École Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, CNRS).
Show more1: Géraldine Legendre, Michael T. Putnam, Henriëtte de Swart, and
Erin Zaroukian: Introduction
PART I: Issues in Optimality-Theoretic Syntax
2: Marc van Oostendorp, Michael T. Putnam, and Laura Catharine
Smith: Intersecting constraints: Why certain constraint-types
overlap while others don't
3: Ralf Vogel: Optimal constructions
4: Fabian Heck and Gereon Müller: On accelerating and decelerating
movement: From Minimalist preference principles to harmonic
serialism
5: Ellen Woolford: Two types of portmanteau agreement: Syntactic
and morphological
6: Hans Broekhuis: Feature inheritance versus extended
projections
7: Joshua Bousquette, Michael T. Putnam, Joseph Salmons, Benjamin
Frey, and DRDaniel Nützel: Multiple grammars, dominance, and
optimization
PART II: Issues in Optimality-Theoretic Semantics and
Pragmatics
8: Sander Lestrade, Geertje van Bergen, and Peter de Swart: On the
origin of constraints
9: Lotte Hogeweg: Optimality Theory and lexical interpretation and
selection
10: Jet Hoek and Helen de Hoop: On the optimal interpretation of
yes and no in Dutch
11: Henriëtte de Swart: Telicity features of bare nominals
12: Géraldine Legendre, Paul Smolensky, and Jennifer Culbertson:
Blocking effects at the lexicon/semantics interface and
bidirectional optimization in French
13: Petra Hendriks: Unfaithful conduct: A competence-based
explanation of asymmetries between production and comprehension
References
Index
Géraldine Legendre is Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive
Science at Johns Hopkins University. She co-developed, with Paul
Smolensky, the soft constraint-based precursor to Optimality Theory
and has played a major role in the development of OT in syntax
since the early 1990s, focussing particularly on comparative
studies of phenomena in syntax and at the syntax-semantics
interface and on the modelling of early child syntax and
code-switching. She is co-author of The Harmonic Mind (with Paul
Smolensky; MIT Press, 2006) and co-editor of Optimality-Theoretic
Syntax (with Jane Grimshaw and Sten Vikner; MIT Press, 2001).
Michael T. Putnam is Associate Professor of German and Linguistics
at Penn State University. His work focuses on gaining a better
understanding of the cognitive architecture underlying the language
faculty at the intersection of culture, grammar, and performance
biases, and he has published widely on comparative Germanic
linguistics, the morphosyntax-semantics interface, and
bilingualism. He is the author of The Structural Design of Language
(with Thomas S. Stroik;
CUP, 2013) and editor of Studies in German-Language Islands
(Benjamins, 2011).
Henriëtte de Swart is Professor of French Linguistics and Semantics
at Utrecht University. Her research is concerned with
cross-linguistic variation at the syntax-semantics-pragmatic
interface, looking specifically at tense and aspect, negation,
indefinites, genericity, and bare nominals. Her publications
include Introduction to Natural Language Semantics (University of
Chicago Press, 1998), The Semantics of Incorporation (with Donka
Farkas; CSLI, 2003),
and Conflicts in Interpretation (with Petra Hendriks, Helen de
Hoop, and Irene Krämer; Equinox, 2010).
Erin Zaroukian is a postdoctoral fellow in the Human Research and
Engineering Directorate of the US Army Research Laboratory, where
her primary research is in human-computer collaboration. Her PhD
work focused on formal semantics of approximation and hedging,
which she continued, with an experimental focus, as a postdoctoral
researcher in the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et
Psycholinguistique (École Normale Supérieure, PSL Research
University, CNRS).
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