Optimality Theory and Language Change

Optimality Theory and Language Change
Author: D.E. Holt
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9401001952


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This work discusses many optimization and linguistic issues in great detail. It treats the history of a variety of languages, including English, French, Germanic, Galician/ Portuguese, Latin, Russian, and Spanish and shows that the application of Optimality Theory allows for innovative and improved analyses. It contains a complete bibliography on OT and language change. It is of interest to historical linguists, researchers into OT and linguistic theory, and phonologists and syntacticians with an interest in historical change.


Optimality Theory and Language Change
Language: en
Pages: 490
Authors: D.E. Holt
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-06 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

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This work discusses many optimization and linguistic issues in great detail. It treats the history of a variety of languages, including English, French, Germani
Bidirectional Optimality Theory
Language: en
Pages: 287
Authors: Anton Benz
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11-28 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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Bidirectional Optimality Theory (BiOT) emerged at the turn of the millennium as a fusion of Radical Pragmatics and Optimality Theoretic Semantics. It stirred a
A Thematic Guide to Optimality Theory
Language: en
Pages: 432
Authors: John J. McCarthy
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Explains and explores the central premises of OT and the results of their praxis.
Optimality-Theoretic Studies in Spanish Phonology
Language: en
Pages: 574
Authors: Fernando Martínez-Gil
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-03-15 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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This outstanding volume offers the first comprehensive collection of optimality-theoretic studies in Spanish phonology. Bringing together most of the best-known
Optimality Theory
Language: en
Pages: 472
Authors: Rene Kager
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-06-28 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This is an introduction to Optimality Theory, whose central idea is that surface forms of language reflect resolutions of conflicts between competing constraint