Linguistic Derivations and Filtering - Minimalism and Optimality Theory - Hans Broekhuis
10. The trivial generator
Linguistic Derivations and Filtering - Minimalism and Optimality Theory - Hans Broekhuis
Ralf Vogel [+]
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).
Description
The author of this chapter concludes that only very few of the specifically minimalist properties of the syntactic generator are necessary for OT's syntax generator, when one exploits OT as interface theory as much as possible. The conception of OT grammar argued for organizes the mapping between semantic, syntactic and phonological/phonetic representations using violable and conflicting mapping constraints.