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Optimality Theory Diana Archangeli

Optimality Theory By Diana Archangeli

Optimality Theory by Diana Archangeli

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This volume provides the first general introduction to optimality theory ---- arguably the linguistic theory of the 1990s. The book leads the reader to an understanding of optimality theory via the exploration and resolution of specific problems in phonology, morphology, and syntax, but presumes virtually no background knowledge in linguistics.

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Optimality Theory: An Overview by Diana Archangeli

This volume provides the first general introduction to optimality theory ---- arguably the linguistic theory of the 1990s. The book leads the reader to an understanding of optimality theory via the exploration and resolution of specific problems in phonology, morphology, and syntax, but presumes virtually no background knowledge in linguistics.

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"This book does offer a well--rounded entry point into the theory for anyone with some basic training in linguistics, including researchers who wish to take a crash course in the theory." Second Language Research

About Diana Archangeli

Diana B. Archangeli is Professor of Linguistics at The University of Arizona. She received her PhD in Linguistics from MIT in 1984, taught previously at the University of Illinois. She is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Faculty Award for Women. In addition to several articles on phonology, she is the co--author with Douglas Pulleybank of Grounded Morphology. D. Terence Langendoen is Professor and Head of Linguistics at The University of Arizona. He received his PhD in Linguistics from MIT in 1964, and has taught at Ohio State University and City University of New York, He is the author of The London School of Linguistics, The Study of Syntax, and Essentials of English Grammar, and co--author with Paul Postal of The Vastness of Natural Language. He was Secretary--Treasurer of the Linguistics Society of America from 1984 to 1988, and will become editor of Linguistics Abstracts in 1997.

Table of Contents

1. Optimality Theory: An Introduction to Linguistics for the 1990s: Diana B. Archangeli (University of Arizona). 2. Optimality Theory and Features: Douglas Pulleybank (University of British Columbia). 3. Optimality Theory and Prosody: Michael Hammond (University of Arizona). 4. Optimality Theory and Morphology: Kevin Russell (University of Manitoba). 5. Optimality Theory and Syntax: Null Arguments and Control: Margaret Speas (University of Massachusetts at Amherst). 6. Optimality Theory and Syntax: Parallels with Phonology: David Pesetsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

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GOR006938361
9780631202264
0631202269
Optimality Theory: An Overview by Diana Archangeli
Diana Archangeli
Explaining Linguistics
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
1997-05-29
252
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