@inproceedings{OPUS4-2990, title = {Optimality theory and minimalism : interface theories}, editor = {Broekhuis, Hans and Vogel, Ralf}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-940793-61-4}, issn = {1616-7392 print}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-27577}, pages = {212}, year = {2009}, abstract = {The papers contained in this issue share the insight that the different components of the grammar sometimes impose conflicting requirements on the grammar's output, and that, in order to handle such conflicts, it seems advantageous to combine aspects from minimalist and OT modelling. The papers show that this can be undertaken in a multiplicity of ways, by using varying proportions of each framework, and offer a broad range of perspectives for future research.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Green2007, author = {Green, Antony Dubach}, title = {Phonology limited}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-939469-93-3}, issn = {1616-7392}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-15512}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {x, 207}, year = {2007}, abstract = {Phonology Limited is a study of the areas of phonology where the application of optimality theory (OT) has previously been problematic. Evidence from a wide variety of phenomena in a wide variety of languages is presented to show that interactions involving more than just faithfulness and markedness are best analyzed as involving language-specific morphological constraints rather than universal phonological constraints. OT has proved to be a highly insightful and successful theory of linguistics in general and phonology in particular, focusing as it does on surface forms and treating the relationship between inputs and outputs as a form of conflict resolution. Yet there have also been a number of serious problems with the approach that have led some detractors to argue that OT has failed as a theory of generative grammar. The most serious of these problems is opacity, defined as a state of affairs where the grammatical output of a given input appears to violate more constraints than an ungrammatical competitor. It is argued that these problems disappear once language-specific morphological constraints are allowed to play a significant role in analysis. Specifically, a number of processes of Tiberian Hebrew traditionally considered opaque are reexamined and shown to be straightforwardly transparent, but crucially involving morphological constraints on form, such as a constraint requiring certain morphological forms to end with a syllabic trochee, or a constraint requiring paradigm uniformity with regard to the occurrence of fricative allophones of stop phonemes. Language-specific morphological constraints are also shown to play a role in allomorphy, where a lexeme is associated with more than one input; the constraint hierarchy then decides which input is grammatical in which context. For example, [ɨ]/[ə] and [u]/[ə] alternation found in some lexemes but not in others in Welsh is attributed to the presence of two inputs for the lexemes with the alternation. A novel analysis of the initial consonant mutations of the modern Celtic languages argues that mutated forms are separately listed inputs chosen in appropriate contexts by constraints on morphology and syntax, rather than being outputs that are phonologically unfaithful to their unmutated inputs. Finally, static irregularities and lexical exceptions are examined and shown to be attributable to language-specific morphological constraints. In American English, the distribution of tense and lax vowels is predictable in several contexts; however, in some contexts, the distributions of tense [ɔ] vs. lax [a] and of tense [{\ae}] vs. lax [{\ae}] are not as expected. It is shown that clusters of output-output faithfulness constraints create a pattern to which words are attracted, which however violates general phonological considerations. New words that enter the language first obey the general phonological considerations before being attracted into the language-specific exceptional pattern.}, language = {de} } @book{OPUS4-1107, title = {Optimality theory and minimalism : a possible convergence?}, editor = {Broekhuis, Hans and Vogel, Ralf}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-939469-54-4}, issn = {1616-7392}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-11909}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {vii ; 231}, year = {2006}, abstract = {This issue of Linguistics in Potsdam contains a number of papers that grew out of the workshop Descriptive and Empirical Adequacy in Linguistics held in Berlin on December 17-19 December, 2005. One of the goals of this meeting was to bring together scholars working in various frameworks (with emphasis on the Minimalist Program and Optimality Theory) and to discuss matters concerning descriptive and empirical adequacy. Another explicit goal was to discuss the question whether Minimalism and Optimality Theory should be considered incompatible and, hence, competing theories, or whether the two frameworks should rather be considered complementary in certain respects (see http://let.uvt.nl/deal05/call.html for the call for papers). Five of the seven papers in this volume directly grew out of the oral presentations given at the workshop. Although Vieri Samek-Lodovici's paper was not part of the workshop, it can also be considered a result of the workshop since it pulls together some of his many comments during the discussion time. The paper by Eva Engels and Sten Vikner discusses a phenomenon that received much interest from both minimalist and optimality theoretic syntax in the recent years, Scandinavian object shift. The paper may serve as a practical example for a claim that is repeatedly made in this volume: minimalist and OT analyses, even where they might be competing, can fruitfully inform each other in a constructive manner, leading to a deeper understanding of syntactic phenomena.}, language = {en} } @book{PfauSteinbach2006, author = {Pfau, Roland and Steinbach, Markus}, title = {Modality-independent and modality-specific aspects of grammaticalization in sign languages}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-939469-53-7}, issn = {1864-1857}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10886}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {97}, year = {2006}, abstract = {One type of internal diachronic change that has been extensively studied for spoken languages is grammaticalization whereby lexical elements develop into free or bound grammatical elements. Based on a wealth of spoken languages, a large amount of prototypical grammaticalization pathways has been identified. Moreover, it has been shown that desemanticization, decategorialization, and phonetic erosion are typical characteristics of grammaticalization processes. Not surprisingly, grammaticalization is also responsible for diachronic change in sign languages. Drawing data from a fair number of sign languages, we show that grammaticalization in visual-gestural languages - as far as the development from lexical to grammatical element is concerned - follows the same developmental pathways as in spoken languages. That is, the proposed pathways are modalityindependent. Besides these intriguing parallels, however, sign languages have the possibility of developing grammatical markers from manual and non-manual co-speech gestures. We will discuss various instances of grammaticalized gestures and we will also briefly address the issue of the modality-specificity of this phenomenon.}, language = {en} } @book{Didakowski2005, author = {Didakowski, J{\"o}rg}, title = {Robustes Parsing und Disambiguierung mit gewichteten Transduktoren}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-937786-87-2}, issn = {1864-1857 online}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10921}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {174}, year = {2005}, abstract = {In dieser Arbeit wird ein Verfahren f{\"u}r robustes Parsing von uneingeschr{\"a}nktem nat{\"u}rlichsprachlichen Text mit gewichteten Transduktoren erarbeitet. Es werden zwei linguistische Theorien, das Chunking und das syntaktische Tagging, vorgestellt, die sich besonders f{\"u}r die praktische Anwendung mit Finite-State Maschinen eignen. {\"U}ber die formalen Grundlagen, die es m{\"o}glich machen, Finite-State Maschinen zu modellieren, werden existierende Ans{\"a}tze vorgestellt, die diese linguistischen Theorien mit Finite-State Maschinen realisieren. Jedoch sind diese Ans{\"a}tze in vieler Hinsicht problematisch. Es wird gezeigt, dass sich Probleme l{\"o}sen lassen, indem Disambiguierungsstrategien durch Constraints realisiert werden, die als Gewicht bzw. Semiring vorliegen. Durch die Bestimmung des besten Pfades ist dann eine Disambiguierung m{\"o}glich. Das Verfahren bewegt sich zwischen einem Low- und High-Level Parsing und behandelt flache Dependenzstrukturen. F{\"u}r die Analyse wird eine rudiment{\"a}re Grammatik f{\"u}r das Deutsche entwickelt. Durch eine Implementierung wird letztlich der Ansatz getestet.}, language = {de} } @book{OPUS4-1006, title = {Three papers on German verb movement}, editor = {Vogel, Ralf}, isbn = {978-3-937786-07-0}, issn = {1864-1857}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10934}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, year = {2004}, abstract = {This volume offers new arguments and perspectives in the ongoing debate about the optimal analysis of verb movement, mainly, but not exclusively, in German. Fanselow and Meinunger deal with verb second (V2) movement in German main clauses. Fanselow argues that head movement of the substitution type follows the standard minimalist conceptions of Merge and Move and is therefore not subject to the same objections as head movement as head adjunction which violates Chomsky's minimalist extension condition, operates countercyclically, and fails to let the moved head c-command its trace. Fanselow argues for V2 movement as head movement of the substitution type. Meinunger discusses a restriction on V2 movement imposed by phrases like "mehr als" ('more than'), as in "Der Wert hat sich weit mehr als verdreifacht" ('the value has far more than tripled') where V2 movement is ruled out (cf. *"Der Wert verdreifachte sich mehr als"). Meinunger claims that this restriction is best analysed in phonological terms: the preposition/complementiser "als" acts as a prefixal clitic to its host, the finite verb, which therefore may not move without it. With respect to the V2 debate, Meinunger argues for an interface perspective. He shows that V2 is restricted from both the conceptual and the phonological interface. Vogel, finally, discusses the syntax of clause-final verbal complexes and their dialectal variation in German. He compares three different syntactic analyses, a minimalist head movement analysis, a minimalist XP movement analysis, and an Optimality theoretic PF movement analysis. The three accounts are evaluated relative to the additional assumptions they have to make, the complications they face and how they fit the observations. Vogel argues in favour of the phonologically oriented OT analysis because of its ability to create a direct link between the coming about of a particular word order pattern and its basically phonological trigger. Each of the three papers recognises the relevance of surface forms in the analysis of German verb movement. They differ, however in the extent to which phonological aspects take part in the explanations they offer.}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-1011, title = {Experimental studies in linguistics 1}, editor = {Fischer, Susann and van de Vijver, Ruben and Vogel, Ralf}, issn = {1864-1857}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10960}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, year = {2003}, abstract = {This is the first issue of a series in which affiliates of the Institute of Linguistics report the results of their experimental work. Generative linguistics usually rely on the method of native speaker judgements in order to test their hypotheses. If a hypothesis rules out a set of sentences, linguistics can ask native speakers whether they feel these sentences are indeed ungrammatical in their language. There are, however, circumstances where this method is unreliable. In such cases a more elaborate method to test a hypothesis is called. All papes in this series, and hence, all papers in this volume deal with issues that cannot be reliably tested with native speaker judgements. This volume contains 7 papers, all using different methods and finding answers to very different questions. This heterogenity, by the way, reflects the various interests and research programs of the institute. The paper, by Trutkowski, Zugck, Blaszczak, Fanselow, Fischer and Vogel deals with superiority in 10 Indo-European languages. The paper by Schlesewsky, Fanselow and Frisch and by Schlesewsky and Frisch, deal with the role of case in processing German sentences. The paper by Vogel and Frisch deals with resolving case conflicts, as does the paper by Vogel and Zugck. The nature of partitive case is the topic of the paper by Fischer. The paper by K?gler deals with the realization of question intonation in two German dialects. We hope that you enjoy reading the papers!}, language = {en} } @book{Pili2003, author = {Pili, Diana}, title = {On A- and A`- dislocation in the left periphery}, publisher = {Univ.-Bibl., Publ.-Stelle}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-935024-59-4}, issn = {1616-7392}, pages = {273}, year = {2003}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-17361, title = {Papers from the workshop 'Languages change from a generative perspektive'}, editor = {Alexiadou, Artemis and Fischer, Susann and Stravrou, Melita}, publisher = {Univ.-Bibliothek Publ.-Stelle}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-935024-56-3}, issn = {1616-7392}, pages = {206}, year = {2002}, language = {en} } @book{FanselowFery2002, author = {Fanselow, Gisbert and F{\´e}ry, Caroline}, title = {A short treatise of optimality theory}, publisher = {Univ.-Bibliothek Publ.-Stelle}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-935024-54-9}, issn = {1616-7392}, pages = {147}, year = {2002}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Endriss2002, author = {Endriss, Cornelia}, title = {The double scope of quantifier phrases}, publisher = {Univ.-Bibliothek Publ.-Stelle}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-935024-47-1}, issn = {1616-7392}, pages = {63}, year = {2002}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-44514, title = {Phonology in Potsdam}, editor = {Fery, Caroline and Dubach Green, Antony and Hartmann, Katharina and van de Vijver, Ruben}, publisher = {Univ.-Bibliothek Publ.-Stelle}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-935024-37-2}, issn = {1616-7392}, pages = {115}, year = {2001}, language = {de} } @book{Blaszczak2001, author = {Blaszczak, Joanna}, title = {Covert Movement and the Genitive of Negative in Polish}, publisher = {Univ.-Bibliothek Publ.-Stelle}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-935024-36-5}, issn = {1616-7392}, pages = {85 S.}, year = {2001}, language = {en} } @book{BlaszczakFischer2001, author = {Blaszczak, Joanna and Fischer, Susann}, title = {Multiple Wh-Konstruktionen im Slavischen : state of the art report}, issn = {1864-1857}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10973}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, year = {2001}, abstract = {Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt eine kritische {\"U}bersicht {\"u}ber den Forschungsstand zu multiplen Wh-Konstruktionen im Slavischen dar. Das Ziel ist es, die Unklarheit der Datenlage und die Widerspr{\"u}chlichkeit der auf solchen "unklaren" Daten basierten Theorien aufzuzeigen. Inhalt: Historischer Hintergrund (Wachowicz 1974) Einige {\"a}ltere Ans{\"a}tze H{\"o}hepunkt: die folgenschwere Arbeit von Rudin (1988) Probleme: - Das Problem der Zuverl{\"a}sslichkeit von Daten - Das Problem der Relevanz von Daten "Harte" Fakten: - Strikte Superiorit{\"a}tseffekte im Bulgarischen - Obligatorische Wh-Anhebung im Slavischen Neuere Ans{\"a}tze: - "Qualitative" Ans{\"a}tze - "Quantitative" Ans{\"a}tze - Alternative Ans{\"a}tze}, language = {en} } @book{Michaelis2001, author = {Michaelis, Jens}, title = {On formal properties of minimalist grammars}, publisher = {Univ.-Bibliothek Publ.-Stelle}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-935024-28-0}, issn = {1616-7392}, pages = {182}, year = {2001}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-17948, title = {Proceedings of HILP 5}, editor = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline and Green Dubach, Antony and van de Vijver, Ruben}, publisher = {Univ.-Bibliothek Publ.-Stelle}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-935024-27-3}, issn = {1616-7392}, pages = {232 S.}, year = {2001}, language = {en} } @book{Fery2000, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline}, title = {Phonologie des Deutschen : eine optimalit{\"a}tstheoretische Einf{\"u}hrung}, publisher = {Univ.-Bibliothek Publ.-Stelle}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-935024-22-8}, issn = {1616-7392}, pages = {231 S.}, year = {2000}, language = {de} } @book{OPUS4-19419, title = {Papers on the Interpretation of Case}, volume = {10}, editor = {Kracht, Marcus and Strigin, Anatoli}, publisher = {Univ.-Bibliothek Publikationsstelle}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-935024-18-1}, issn = {1616-7392}, pages = {107 S.}, year = {2000}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-19420, title = {Two Papers on Clitics}, volume = {9}, editor = {G{\"a}rtner, Hans-Martin}, publisher = {Univ.-Bibliothek Publikationsstelle}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-935024-17-4}, issn = {1616-7392}, pages = {76 S.}, year = {2000}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-19454, title = {Studies in Optimality Theory}, editor = {Blutner, Reinhard and J{\"a}ger, Gerhard}, publisher = {Univ.-Bibliothek Publikationsstelle}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-935024-16-7}, issn = {1616-7392}, pages = {72}, year = {2000}, language = {en} } @book{Fery2004, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline}, title = {Phonologie des Deutschen}, series = {Linguistics in Potsdam}, journal = {Linguistics in Potsdam}, number = {7}, edition = {3., {\"u}berarb. Aufl.}, issn = {1864-1857}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10916}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, year = {2004}, abstract = {Inhalt: Kapitel 1: Phonetische Grundlagen: Akustische Phonetik Kapitel 2: Phonetische Grundlagen: Artikulatorische Phonetik Kapitel 3: Segment und Allophonie Kapitel 4: Distinktive Merkmale Kapitel 5: Die Silbe: prosodische Struktur der W{\"o}rter Kapitel 6: Derivationen und OT: die phonologischen Theorien}, language = {de} } @book{Fery2001, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline}, title = {Phonologie des Deutschen : eine optimalit{\"a}tstheoretische Einf{\"u}hrung}, edition = {2. Aufl}, publisher = {Univ.-Bibliothek Publ.-Stelle}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-935024-35-8}, issn = {1616-7392}, pages = {221 S.}, year = {2001}, language = {de} } @book{Fery2000, author = {F{\´e}ry, Caroline}, title = {Phonologie des Deutschen : eine optimalit{\"a}tstheoretische Einf{\"u}hrung}, publisher = {Univ.-Bibliothek Publ.-Stelle}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-935024-14-3}, issn = {1616-7392}, pages = {236 S.}, year = {2000}, language = {de} } @book{OPUS4-19787, title = {Adverbs and Adjunction}, series = {Linguistics in Potsdam}, journal = {Linguistics in Potsdam}, editor = {Alexiadou, Artemis and Svenonius, Peter}, publisher = {Univ.-Bibliothek}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-935024-13-6}, issn = {1616-7392}, pages = {200}, year = {2000}, abstract = {The papers collected in this volume were all presented at the workshop on Adverbs and Adjunction, held at the University of Tromsoe, in April 17-18, 1999. The presentations by Kristin M. Eide \&Inghild Flaate, Henriette de Swart, Artemis Alexiadou and Adam Wyner could not be included here. The articles deal with the syntax, semantics and morpbology of adverbs and their interaction with other syntactic phenomena. A number of tbe contributions is concerned with an evaluation of the hypothesis that adverbs are specifiers of functional heads, which are universally ordered. Specifically, Adger \&Tsoulas argue that locative adverbials are licensed by an aspectual head that encodes telicity, while manner adverbials are licensed by a light verb that encodes agentivity, both being situated low in the VP structure. According to the authors, the prime function of these heads is to license aspects of the featural composition of the object, and the licensing of these low adverbials is a by-product of the way that the EPP features of these heads functions. Costa presents data from European Portuguese in support of the traditional analysis of adverbs as adjuncts. Ernst shows that manner, measure, and domain adverbs, and more generally, adverbs and other adjuncts such as participant PPs and adjunct secondary predicates (depictives), are not rigidly ordered. Hence the paper supports theories where linear order is largely a function of the interaction of compositional rules for the various adjuncts, plus their lexico-semantic requirements. For Haider, adverbials are adjoined or embedded, depending on the relation to the head of the containing phrase: they are adjoined if they precede the head of the containing phrase. They are embedded if they follow the head of tbe containing phrase. But the relative order of adverbials is a reflex of an interface condition. Moreover, the order pattern of adverbials in the extraposition domain is a function of linear incrementality in a non-compositional subdomain. Laenzlinger, on the other hand, claims that adverbs occupy the A'-specifier of their semantically related functional projection. They are formally licensed via the mechanism of feature checking, which links their distribution to their interpretation. He also considers adverb placement and its interaction with Verb/Argument Movement, fronting and extraposition. The interaction between A-scrambling and adverb placement crosslinguistically is also investigated by Hoffman in a minimalist framework. He claims that adverbs can be pronounced in any set of syntactic positions, but the choice among the various positions is made on non syntactic grounds. Two papers are concerned with adverbial case. Pereltsvaig examines nominal adverbials marked with Accusative Case, with particular focus on Russian and Finnish. She shows that Accusative adverbials exhibit object-like behavior. She argues that Accusative Case is related to aspectual properties of the VP, and it is thus argued that Structural Accusative Case is checked in [Spec, AspP]. But not all occurrences of morphological accusative case derive from Structural Accusative Case. Thus, the contrasts between Russian and Finnish are explained by the claim that Russian uses accusative case marking for NPs in default objective Case position, whereas Finnish uses partitive in the same position. Manninen shows that in Finnish- adverbs can be analyzed as a sub-category of adjectives and nouns, as they are really case-inflected adjectives and nouns. Manninen proposes that these bear lexical 'adverb' case, i. e. that is they have the form of K(asus;Kase)Ps. Finally, Vegnaduzzo investigates the polysemy of the ltalian adverb ancora showing that this is only apperent. She argues that all the different readings depend upon the context where it is inserted: each reading is derived by compositionality of ancora basic meaning and the semantic properties of the argument structure of the verb.}, language = {en} }