<OT> New Posting: ROA-880

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ROA 880-1006

Implication & Impossibility in Grammatical Systems: What it is & How to find it

Alan Prince <prince at ruccs.rutgers.edu>

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Abstract:
Predictive linguistic theory generates a rich pattern of
implications tying together the well- and ill-formedness
of linguistic structures. Visible extensionally as restrictions
on the kinds of processes and optima that can and cannot
co-exist within a grammar, such implications emerge from
the the constraint ranking patterns that lead to optimality
and failure. The Elementary Ranking Condition supports a
set of practical tools for digging systematic implications
out of data as construed by grammatical assumptions. This
paper discussses a variety of concrete cases and places
them in their analytical context. No background in the relevant
notions and techniques is assumed.

Comments: 
Keywords: ranking, implicational universals, factorial typologies, harmonic bounding, ERC
Areas: Formal Analysis
Type: Manuscript

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