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  -