TY - JOUR A1 - Grimshwa, Jane T1 - Last resorts and grammaticality JF - Linguistics in Potsdam N2 - A “last resort” is argued to be nothing more than a winning, i.e. grammatical form, once it is understood in terms of competition between alternative candidates. It is a theorem of OT that we find last resort effects, since it follows from the nature of competition and constraint interaction. KW - Economy KW - Optimality Theory KW - Competition Y1 - 2006 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-32302 SN - 1616-7392 SN - 1864-1857 IS - 25 SP - 33 EP - 41 ER -