LINGUIST List 12.1879

Mon Jul 23 2001

Books: Syntax

Editor for this issue: Naomi Ogasawara <naomilinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Kim Lewis Brown, Syntax: Formal and Empirical Issues in Optimality Theoretic Syntax

CSLI Publications is pleased to announce the availability of:

FORMAL AND EMPIRICAL ISSUES IN OPTIMALITY THEORETIC SYNTAX; 
Peter Sells, ed. (Stanford University); 
paper ISBN: 1-57586-244-1, $24.95; 
cloth ISBN: 1-57586-243-3, $64.95, 430 pages. 
CSLI Publications 2001. 
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu , email: pubscsli.stanford.edu.

Book description:

Formal and Empirical Issues in Optimality Theoretic Syntax is a
collection of selected works which involve a new approach to syntax by
bringing together Optimality Theory (OT) and Lexical-Functional
Grammar (LFG). The volume's importance is precisely in this new
approach, which differs greatly from other OT approaches to syntax.
The book first develops formal foundations of Optimality Theory. The
works within the volume then go on to analyze certain kinds of
linguistic data, as well as more technical questions of the formal
foundations, and of the utility of the approach in (industrial)
natural language processing applications.

To order this book:
Contact the University of Chicago Press by calling their toll free 
order number 1-800-621-2736 (U.S. & Canada only). Or order online at 
CSLI Publications' website: 
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/site/1575862441.html