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ROA 660-0504

Remarks on the Architecture of OT Syntax Grammars

Ralf Vogel <rvogel at ling.uni-potsdam.de>

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Abstract:
This paper argues for a particular architecture of OT syntax.
This architecture has three core features:

i) it is bidirectional, the usual production-oriented optimisatio
n (called 'first optimisation' here) is accompanied by a
second step that checks the recoverability of an underlying form;

ii) this underlying form already contains a full-fledged
syntactic specification;

iii) especially the procedure checking for recoverability
makes crucial use of semantic and pragmatic factors.


The first section motivates the basic architecture. The
second section shows with two examples, how contextual factors
are integrated. The third section examines its implications
for learning theory, and the fourth section concludes with
a broader discussion of the advantages and disadvantages
of the proposed model.

Comments: Draft version of a paper published under same title in Reinhard Blutner/Henk Zeevat (eds.), Optimality Theory and Pragmatics, Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004, pp. 211-227.
Keywords: Syntax, Bidirectionality, Syntax and Pragmatics
Areas: Syntax
Type: Book Chapter

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