<OT> New Posting: ROA-926

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ROA 926-0907

What constraint connectives should be permitted in OT?

Matthew Wolf <mwolf at linguist.umass.edu>

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Abstract:
Local Conjunction (LC: Smolensky 1993, 1995, 1997) been
the subject of a great deal of theoretical discussion, but
much less attention has been paid to the possibility that
OT might include connectives other than LC for creating
new constraints from pre-existing ones. Is there any reason
to suspect that LC could be the only connective available
to natural-language OT grammars? I argue that there is:
of the fifteen possible two-place connectives besides LC,
all are either analytically inert or can be ruled out by
typologically-motivated criteria.

Comments: 
Keywords: local conjunction, connectives
Areas: Phonology,Formal Analysis
Type: Manuscript

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