@article{GrovePutnam2009, author = {Grove, Kyle Wade and Putnam, Mike}, title = {Deriving pairedness in vP structure}, series = {Linguistics in Potsdam}, journal = {Linguistics in Potsdam}, number = {28}, issn = {1616-7392}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-32284}, pages = {187 -- 210}, year = {2009}, abstract = {Minimalist accounts lack a natural theory of markedness, whereas Optimality-Theoretical accounts fundamentally encode markedness. We think the duality of interfaces assumed in Minimalism is a step towards explaining pairedness behavior, where a given language exhibits a marked/ unmarked pair of items occupying the same niche. We argue that while Minimalism articulates the derivational aspect of language, and underlies grammaticality, an Optimality Theoretic articulation of PF and LF is conceptually natural and explains pairedness behavior. We adopt this 'hybrid' account, first, to explain the existence of marked (often termed 'reflexive') and unmarked anticausatives in German, recently studied in depth by Sch¨afer [2007].}, language = {en} }