Modeling Ungrammaticality in Optimality Theory
Edited by
Curt Rice [+–]
University of Tromsø
Curt Rice is Vice President for Research and Development at the University of Tromsø, Norway.
Sylvia Blaho [+–]
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Slyvia Blaho is a researcher at the Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Modeling Ungrammaticality in Optimality Theory presents a collection of papers in phonology and syntax on the topic of ineffability, or absolute ungrammaticality. The papers all contribute new analyses of carefully presented cases, making the book useful for researchers exploring ineffability from any theoretical perspective. The theoretical context for the papers is the analytical challenge which these cases present for Optimality Theory. The architecture of OT takes an input and maps it onto its optimal output. But the cases analyzed in these papers would seem to invite analyses in which an input has no output whatsoever, not even an imperfect one. The papers develop various strategies for modeling this phenomenon, building on proposals in the literature such as the null parse, control theory, the null output, optimal gaps, string-based correspondence theory, and others.
Series: Advances in Optimality Theory
Table of Contents
Introduction
1 Modeling ungrammaticality [+–] 1-13
University of Tromsø
Curt Rice is Vice President for Research and Development at the University of Tromsø, Norway.
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Slyvia Blaho is a researcher at the Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Topics include: 1 Introduction; 2 Examples; 3 OT approaches to absolute ungrammaticality; 4 Moving forward
Part I: Architecture
Independent scholar
Matthew Wolf completed his Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2008. He subsequently held visiting positions at Georgetown University (2008-2009) and Yale University (2009-2010), and was a post-doctoral researcher at Yale from 2010 to 2012. His work has appeared in Linguistics, Phonology, and Morphology, and he is a contributor to two other volumes in the Advances in Optimality Theory series: Modeling Ungrammaticality in Optimality Theory (2010) and Harmonic Grammar and Harmonic Serialism (2015).
University of Massachusetts
Topics include: 1 Introduction; 2 On gaps; 3 String correspondence and faithfulness; 4 MPARSE and the null output; 5 MPARSE and learning; 6 Other theories of the null output; 7 Conclusion
3 Dutch diminutives and the question mark [+–] 67-95
Meertens Instituut
Marc van Oostendorp is head of the Department of Variation Linguistics at the Meertens Instituut of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Phonological Microvariation at Leiden University. He has published many articles and books and papers on phonological theory, on microvariation and other topics, and won several awards for his work. Within the Netherlands, he is also known as an author of popularizing books on linguistics.
Topics include: 1 Monostratalism and the null parse; 2 Containment; 3 Dutch diminutives; 4 Relativized MPARSE within Coloured Containment; 5 The question mark and language variation; 6 Conclusion
4 Hard constraints in Optimality Theory [+–] 97-114
Topics include: 1 Gaps in Turkish possessives; 2 English re-verb nominalization; 3 Analysis of the maximum size condition in re-verb nominalization; 4 Norwegian imperatives; 5 Conclusion
Part II: Paradigms
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Topics include: 1 Introduction; 2 Some challenges for a theory of paradigm gaps; 3 Modeling grammatical confidence with stochastic generalizations; 4 Extensions, and discussion; 5 Conclusion
6 A gap in the feminine paradigm of Hebrew: a consequence of identity avoidance in the suffix domain. [+–] 165-194
Tel-Aviv University
Topics include: 1 Introduction; 2 Data and generalizations; 3 Identity resolution; 4 The null output; 5 Surface identity; 6 Absolute vs. unstable gap; 7 Conclusion
7 Covert and overt defectiveness in paradigms [+–] 195-234
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Topics include; 1 Introduction; 2 Covert defectiveness and the Zooming Effect; 3 Hungarian data; 4 Analysis; 5 Conclusion
Part III: Ineffability in Syntax
Johns Hopkins University
Topics include: 1 The nature of the debate; 2 The neutralization approach; 3 Why the null parse approach is unworkable; 4 Independent evidence for neutralization in syntax; 5 The surface realization issue; 6 Conclusion
9 Wh-Islands: a view from Correspondence Theory [+–] 267-292
University of Bielefeld
Ralf Vogel is professor of German linguistics at the University of Bielefeld. He is co-editor, with Artur Stepanov and Gisbert Fanselow, of Minimality Effects in Syntax (Mouton de Gruyter, 2004) and co-author, with Gisbert Fanselow, Caroline Fery and Matthias Schlesewsky, of Gradience in Grammar: Generative Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2006).
Topics include: 1 Introduction — Ineffability in OT Syntax; 2 Correspondence-based OT syntax; 3 Wh-Islands; 4 Exceptions to the wh-island constraint; 5 Exceptions to wh-islands within OT; 6 Conclusion
End Matter
Language index [+–] 293
University of Tromsø
Curt Rice is Vice President for Research and Development at the University of Tromsø, Norway.
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Slyvia Blaho is a researcher at the Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Modeling Ungrammaticality in Optimality Theory presents a collection of papers in phonology and syntax on the topic of ineffability, or absolute ungrammaticality. The papers all contribute new analyses of carefully presented cases, making the book useful for researchers exploring ineffability from any theoretical perspective. The theoretical context for the papers is the analytical challenge which these cases present for Optimality Theory. The architecture of OT takes an input and maps it onto its optimal output. But the cases analyzed in these papers would seem to invite analyses in which an input has no output whatsoever, not even an imperfect one. The papers develop various strategies for modeling this phenomenon, building on proposals in the literature such as the null parse, control theory, the null output, optimal gaps, string-based correspondence theory, and others.
Author index [+–] 294-297
University of Tromsø
Curt Rice is Vice President for Research and Development at the University of Tromsø, Norway.
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Slyvia Blaho is a researcher at the Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Modeling Ungrammaticality in Optimality Theory presents a collection of papers in phonology and syntax on the topic of ineffability, or absolute ungrammaticality. The papers all contribute new analyses of carefully presented cases, making the book useful for researchers exploring ineffability from any theoretical perspective. The theoretical context for the papers is the analytical challenge which these cases present for Optimality Theory. The architecture of OT takes an input and maps it onto its optimal output. But the cases analyzed in these papers would seem to invite analyses in which an input has no output whatsoever, not even an imperfect one. The papers develop various strategies for modeling this phenomenon, building on proposals in the literature such as the null parse, control theory, the null output, optimal gaps, string-based correspondence theory, and others.
