TY  - JOUR
A1  - Broekhuis, Hans
T1  - Derivations (MP) and evaluations (OT)
JF  - Linguistics in Potsdam
N2  - The main claim of this paper is that the minimalist framework and optimality theory adopt more or less the same architecture of grammar: both assume that a generator defines a set S of potentially well-formed expressions that can be generated on the basis of a given input, and that there is an evaluator that selects the expressions from S that are actually grammatical in a given language L. The paper therefore proposes a model of grammar in which the strengths of the two frameworks are combined: more specifically, it is argued that the computational system of human language CHL from MP creates a set S of potentially well-formed expressions, and that these are subsequently evaluated in an optimality theoretic fashion.
KW  - Minimalist Program
KW  - Optimality Theory
KW  - Derivation-and-Evaluation model
KW  - Object Shift
Y1  - 2006
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-32347
SN  - 1616-7392
SN  - 1864-1857
IS  - 25
SP  - 137
EP  - 193
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hacken, Pius ten
T1  - The nature, use and origin of explanatory adequacy
JF  - Linguistics in Potsdam
N2  - If we want to compare the explanatory and descriptive adequacy of the MP and OT, the original definitions by Chomsky (1964) are or little direct use. However, a relativized version of both notions can be defined, which can be used to express a number of parallels between the study of individual I-languages and the language faculty. In any version of explanatory and descriptive adequacy, the two notions derive from the research programme and can only be achieved together. They can therefore not be used to characterize the difference in orientation between OT and the MP. Even if ‘OT’ is restricted to a particular theory in Chomskyan linguistics (to the exclusion of, for instance, its use in LFG), it cannot be said to be stronger in descriptive adequacy than in explanatory adequacy in the technical sense of these terms.
KW  - Levels of adequacy
KW  - Chomskyan linguistics
KW  - research programme
KW  - Minimalist Program
KW  - Optimality Theory
Y1  - 2006
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-32297
SN  - 1616-7392
SN  - 1864-1857
IS  - 25
SP  - 9
EP  - 32
ER  -