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Is the Best Good Enough? Optimality and Competition in Syntax

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Is the Best Good Enough? Optimality and Competition in Syntax - Barbosa, Pilar (Editor), and Hagstrom, Paul (Editor), and McGinnis, Martha (Editor)
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Developments in linguistic theory have led to a reconsideration of the role of optimality in the overall architecture of the grammar. Emerging from this research is the idea that different components of the grammar interact to yield the best choice from a set of candidate derivations. This idea departs from traditional approaches to the output of linguistic levels in generative grammar, in which rules, principles and constraints interact to determine the grammatical status of each linguistic object independent of the status ...

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Is the Best Good Enough? Optimality and Competition in Syntax 1998, MIT Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780262522496

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