LINGUIST List 12.401

Thu Feb 15 2001

Books: Linguistic Theory

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Kimberly Kahn, Linguistic Theory: Optimality Theory by Dekkers et.al (eds.)
2. Kimberly Kahn, Linguistic Theory: The Architecture of Language, by Naom Chomsky

OPTIMALITY THEORY: Phonology, Syntax, and Acquisition
Edited by Joost Dekkers, Frank van der Leeuw, and Jeroen van de Weijer,
Leiden University

Optimality Theory has revolutionized phonological theory, and its
insights are now being applied to other central aspects of
language. With contributors that include the leading researchers in
the field, this book presents the first fruits of such research as
applied to syntax and to language acquisition, as well as considering
the main lines of attack on OT by rule-based grammarians.

Contents: 

Introduction Optimality Theory: Phonology, Syntax, and Acquisition, 
Paul Boersma, Joost Dekkers, and Jeroen van de Weijer 

Part Ia: Phonology - Prosodic Representations 
Cycles, Non-Derived-Environment Blocking and Correspondence, Luigi Burzio 
Gradient Well-Formedness in Optimality Theory, Bruce Hayes 
Stem Stress and Peak Correspondence in Dutch, Ren� Kager 
Faithfulness and Prosodic Circumscription, John McCarthy 

Part Ib: Phonology - Segmental Phonology 
Loan Phonology: Perception, Salience, the Lexicon, and OT, Haike Jacobs and 
Carlos Gussenhoven 
Derivational Residue: Hidden Rules in OT, Darlene LaCharit� and 
Carole Paradis 
Dependency Theory Meets OT: A Proposal for a New Approach to Segmental 
Structure, Norval Smith 

Part II: Syntax 
Absolute Ungrammaticality, Peter Ackema and Ad Neeleman Toward an Optimal 
Account of Second Position Phenomena, Stephen R. Anderson 
Optimal Syntax, Joan Bresnan 
Minimalism and OT: Derivations and Filters, Hans Broekhuis and Joost Dekkers 
Morphological and Prosodic Alignment of Bulgarian Clitics, G�raldine Legendre 
Part III: The Acquisition of Syntax and Phonology 
Learning a Grammar in Functional Phonology, Paul Boersma 
The Universal Constraint Set: Convention not Fact, Mark Ellison 
Learning Phonology: Genetic Algorithms and Yoruba Tongue Root Harmony, 
Douglas Pulleyblank and William Turkel 
Optimality and Strict Domination in Language Learning, Bruce Tesar

December 2000 648 pp.
0-19-823844-4 paper $45.00
Oxford University Press


Kimberly Kahn
Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Phone: (212) 726-6086 Fax: (212) 726-6442 E-mail: krkoup-usa.org

THE ARCHITECTURE OF LANGUAGE
Noam Chomsky, MIT
Edited by Nirmalangshu Mukherji, Visva-Bharati
University, Santiniketan, India, Bibudhendra Narayan
Patnaik, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and
Rama Kant Agnihotri, Delhi University, Delhi

Noam Chomsky is one of the most widely published
and influential thinkers on language and mind. This
book consists of an edited transcript of a lecture,
delivered at the University of Delhi in January 1996,
where Chomsky reflects on the history of the
'generative enterprise' to relate it to some strikingly
novel advances in recent grammatical theory.

January 2001 108 pp.
0-19-564834-X $35.00
Oxford University Press
 
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Kimberly Kahn
Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Avenue, New
York, NY 10016
Phone: (212) 726-6086 Fax: (212) 726-6442 E-mail:
krkoup-usa.org