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Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar

Alan Prince, Paul Smolensky
ISBN: 978-0-470-75939-4
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304 pages
April 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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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.