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Optimality Theory and Language Change:
This volume may be used as one of the texts in courses on historical phonology or syntax that treat these topics from generative approaches or that give a general survey of various frameworks of research into these areas. Likewise, the volume may serve as a text for courses in phonology, syntax and Optimality Theory that have a component dedicated to extensions of linguistic theory to historical change. It is of interest for historical linguists, researchers into Optimality Theory and linguistic theory, and for phonologists and syntacticians with an interest in historical change.
-discusses many optimization and linguistic issues in great detail;
-treats the history of a variety of languages, including English, French, Germanic, Galician/Portuguese, Latin, Russian, and Spanish;
-shows that the application of OT allows for innovative and improved analyses;
-allows researchers that appeal to OT to see the connections of their (usually synchronic) work with diachronic studies;
-contains a complete bibliography on Optimality Theory and language change.
- Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Remarks on Optimality Theory and Language Change
Pages 1-30
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The Odds of Eternal Optimization in Optimality Theory
Pages 31-65
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On Re-Ranking and Explanatory Adequacy in a Constraint-Based Theory of Phonological Change
Pages 67-90
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The Actuation Problem in Optimality Theory
Pages 91-119
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When History Doesn’t Repeat Itself
Pages 121-142
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Optimality Theory and Language Change
- Editors
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- D.E. Holt
- Series Title
- Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
- Series Volume
- 56
- Copyright
- 2003
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-010-0195-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-010-0195-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4020-1469-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4020-1470-3
- Series ISSN
- 0924-4670
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 463
- Topics
