Optimality Theory and Language Change (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Holt, D. E.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This work discusses many optimization and linguistic issues in great detail. It treats the history of a variety of languages, including English, French, Germanic, Galician/ Portuguese, Latin, Russian, and Spanish and shows that the application of Optimality Theory allows for innovative and improved analyses. It contains a complete bibliography on OT and language change. It is of interest to historical linguists, researchers into OT and linguistic theory, and phonologists and syntacticians with an interest in historical change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 463
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789401001953
• Artikelnr.: 43985888

Inhaltsangabe

I: Optimality Theory And Language Change: Overview and Theoretical Issues.- Remarks on Optimality Theory and language change.- The odds of eternal optimization in Optimality Theory.- On re-ranking and explanatory adequacy in a constraint-based theory of phonological change.- The actuation problem in Optimality Theory: Phonologization, rule inversion and rule loss.- When history doesn't repeat itself: Optimality Theory and implausible sound changes.- Language change without constraint reranking.- II: Case Studies Of Phonological Change.- English vowel shifts and 'optimal' diphthongs: Is there a logical link?.- Merger avoidance and lexical reconstruction: An OT model of the Great Vowel Shift.- The emergence of quantity-sensitivity in Latin: Secondary stress, Iambic Shortening and theoretical implications for 'mixed' stress systems.- Some interactions between word, foot and syllable structure in the history of the Spanish language.- The emergence of palatal sonorants and alternating diphthongs in Old Spanish.- The emergence of contrastive palatalization in Russian.- III: Case Studies of Syntactic Change.- How to rank constraints: Constraint conflict, grammatical competition and the rise of periphrastic do.- Historical changes in verb-second and null subjects from Old to Modern French.- Bibliography on Optimality Theory and language change.- References.- Indices.- Names.- Languages.- Constraints.- Terms.