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Formal and Empirical Issues in Optimality Theoretic Syntax is a collection of selected works which involve a new approach to syntax by bringing together Optimality Theory (OT) and Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG). The volume's importance is precisely in this new approach, which differs greatly from other OT approaches to syntax. The book first develops formal foundations of Optimality Theory. The works within the volume then go on to analyze certain kinds of linguistic data, as well as more technical questions of the formal foundations, and of the utility of the approach in (industrial) natural language processing applications. Peter Sells is associate professor in the department of linguistics at Stanford University. Joan Bresnan is professor of linguistics at Stanford University. Miriam Butt is a researcher at University of Konstanz. Tracy Holloway King is a researcher at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.

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Author:   Peter Sells (Stanford University, California) ,  Joan W. Bresnan ,  Miriam Butt ,  Tracy Holloway King
Publisher:   Centre for the Study of Language & Information
Imprint:   Centre for the Study of Language & Information
Volume:   5
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9781575862446

ISBN 10:   1575862441
Pages:   325
Publication Date:   01 April 2001
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Joan Bresnan; 1. Linking, optionality, and ambiguity in Marathi: an optimality theory account Ash Asudeh; 2. The emergence of the unmarked order Hanjung Lee; 3. Phrase structure, information structure, and the mismatch resolution Hye-Won Choi; 4. Case and word order in Fore (still under revision) Cathryn Donohue; 5. Kashmiri case clitics and person hierarchy effects Devyani Sharma; 6. Yukiko Morimoto; 7. An architecture for OT-based linking theory in LFG Anette Frank, Mary Dalrymple and Miriam Butt; 8. Two ways of formalizing OT Syntax in the LFG framework Jonas Kuhn; 9. Optimality theory style constraint ranking in large-scale LFG grammars Anette Frank, Tracy Holloway King, Jonas Kuhn and John Maxwell.

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Miriam Butt is professor for general and computational linguistics at the University of Konstanz. Tracy Holloway King is principal scientist in Adobe's Sensei and Search organization, focusing on natural language processing.

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