Is the best good enough? : optimality and competition in syntax

Abstract

WHOT?, Peter Ackema and Ad Neeleman optimality and inversion in Spanish, Eric Bakovic morphology competes with syntax - explaining typological variation in weak crossover effects, Joan Bresman anaphora and soft constraints, Luigi Burzio some observation on economy in generative grammar, Noam Chomsky locality in variable binding, Danny Fox optimality theory and human sentence processing, Edward Gibson and Kevin Broihier optimal subjects and subject universals, Jane Grimshaw and Vieri Samek-Lodovici semantic and pragmatic context-dependence - the case of reciprocals, Yookyung Kim and Stanley Peters when less is more? faithfulness and minimal links in wh-chains, Geraldine Legendre, Paul Smolensky and Colin Wilson reference set, minimal link condition and parameterization, Masanori Nakamura on the nature of inputs and outputs - a case study of negation, Mark Newson some optimality principles of sentence pronunciation, David Pesetsky constraints on local economy, Geoffrey Poole the logical problem of language acquisition in optimality theory, Douglas Pulleyblank and William J. Turkel error-driven learning in optimality theory via the efficient computation of optimal forms, Bruce B. Tesar.

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