Deriving pairedness in vP structure
- 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].
Author details: | Kyle Wade Grove, Mike Putnam |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-32284 |
ISSN: | 1616-7392 |
ISSN: | 1864-1857 |
Title of parent work (German): | Linguistics in Potsdam |
Subtitle (German): | minimalist yet optimal |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Publication year: | 2009 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2009/06/24 |
Issue: | 28 |
First page: | 187 |
Last Page: | 210 |
RVK - Regensburg classification: | EQ 3310 |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
Collection(s): | Universität Potsdam / Schriftenreihen / Linguistics in Potsdam: LIP, ISSN 1864-1857 / LIP (2009) 28 |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft |
License (German): | Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |
External remark: | In Printform erschienen im Universitätsverlag Potsdam: Broekhuis, Hans: Optimality theory and minimalism : interface theories / Hans Broekhuis, Ralf Vogel (eds.) Potsdam : Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2009. - 212 S. ISSN 1616-7392 ISBN 978-3-940793-61-4 --> bestellen |