Linguistic Derivations and Filtering - Minimalism and Optimality Theory - Hans Broekhuis
12. Hard and soft conditions on the Faculty of Language: constituting parametric variation
Linguistic Derivations and Filtering - Minimalism and Optimality Theory - Hans Broekhuis
Hedde Zeijlstra
University of Amsterdam
Description
The author argues that the conditions imposed by the sensory-motor and the conceptual-intentional system on the output representations of the generator are necessarily in conflict and therefore (at least partly) violable.