Table Of Contents:
Preface ix
1 Introduction 1(4)
2 The Foundations of OT 5(22)

2.1 Conflicting Violable Constraints 5(6)

2.2 Factorial Typology and the Grounding of Constraints 11(13)

2.2.1 Factorial typology 11(6)

2.2.2 The predictive power of factorial typology 17(3)

2.2.3 The grounding of constraints 20(3)

2.2.4 Simplicity in the logical structure of constraints 23(1)

2.3 Summary 24(3)
3 Observations about OT Syntax 27(28)

3.1 On the Motivation of Syntactic OT Constraints 27(2)

3.2 Faithfulness violations in Phonology and Syntax 29(9)

3.2.1 Constraint interaction as the main explanatory device 29(2)

3.2.2 Epenthesis and deletion in phonology 31(2)

3.2.3 Syntactic variation across languages 33(4)

3.2.4 Consequences for Gen 37(1)

3.3 Learning and the Character of the Input 38(16)

3.3.1 Learning in OT 38(4)

3.3.2 Criteria for learnability-implications for the input 42(3)

3.3.3 Language-Particular Ineffability 45(3)

3.3.4 The problem for learnability 48(1)

3.3.5 The non-derivational view of the input-output connection 49(5)

3.4 Summary 54(1)
4 The Formalization of OT Syntax 55(64)

4.1 Background on Lexical-Functional Grammar 56(7)

4.2 Optimality-Theoretic LFG-the Overall Architecture 63(11)

4.2.1 Abstract formal specification 64(3)

4.2.2 Degrees of freedom in this OT LFG architecture 67(2)

4.2.3 Undecidability arguments for unrestricted OT systems 69(3)

4.2.4 Fixing the choices in the definitions 72(2)

4.3 Candidate Generation and the Inviolable Principles 74(7)

4.3.1 The restricted definition of GenGinviol 74(1)

4.3.2 Completeness and Coherence in OT syntax 75(2)

4.3.3 The base grammar Ginviol 77(4)

4.4 The Violable Constraints: Markedness Constraints 81(24)

4.4.1 Markedness constraints in OT LFG 81(4)

4.4.2 Universal quantification of constraints 85(4)

4.4.3 Constraint schemata 89(5)

4.4.4 Constraint schemata as standard LFG descriptions 94(7)

4.4.5 Digression: Constraint marking as description by analysis vs. codescription 101(4)

4.5 Faithfulness Constraints 105(10)

4.5.1 Faithfulness and the subsumption-based GenGinviol 106(5)

4.5.2 The formalization of faithfulness constraints 111(4)

4.6 Summary 115(4)
5 The Direction of Optimization 119(46)

5.1 Varying the Input to Optimization 121(9)

5.1.1 Word order freezing 125(5)

5.2 The Character of Comprehension-based Optimization 130(7)

5.2.1 Apparent counterevidence against constraint ranking 131(4)

5.2.2 Optimization with a fixed context 135(2)

5.3 Bidirectional Optimization 137(27)

5.3.1 Sequential bidirectional optimization models 138(4)

5.3.2 Strong bidirectional optimization 142(4)

5.3.3 Weak bidirectional optimization 146(3)

5.3.4 Deriving recoverability through bidirectional optimization 149(11)

5.3.5 Ineffability and strong vs. weak bidirectionality 160(4)

5.4 Summary 164(1)
6 Computational OT Syntax 165(48)

6.1 Processing Issues for OT LFG 166(8)

6.1.1 Infinite candidate sets in processing 167(3)

6.1.2 Directionality in processing 170(4)

6.2 Decidability of OT LFG Generation 174(25)

6.2.1 Generation with LFG grammars 174(13)

6.2.2 OT LFG generation 187(12)

6.3 Recognition and Parsing for OT LFG 199(13)

6.3.1 Undecidability of the unrestricted recognition problem 200(2)

6.3.2 Decidability of variants of the parsing task 202(10)

6.4 Summary 212(1)
7 Conclusion 213(6)
References 219(10)
Constraint Index 229(2)
Name Index 231(4)
Subject Index 235