Optimality Theory and Language Change

Name: Optimality Theory and Language Change
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ISBN: 9781402014703

ISBN-10: 1402014708

ISBN-13: 9781402014703

Edition: 2003

Authors: D. Eric Holt

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List price: $219.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Publication date: 8/31/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 463
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.45" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 3.234
Language: English



List of contributors


Acknowledgements



Optimality Theory and Language Change: Overview and Theoretical Issues


Remarks on Optimatility Theory and language change



The odds of eternal optimization in Optimality Theory



On re-ranking and explanatory adequacy in a constraint-based theory of phonological change



The actuation problem in Optimality Theory: Phonologization, rule inversion and rule loss



When history doesn't repeat itself: Optimality Theory and implausible sound changes



Language change without constraint reranking




Case Studies of Phonological Change


English vowel shifts and "optimal" diphthongs: Is there a logical link?



Merger avoidance and lexical reconstruction: An OT model of the Great Vowel Shift



The emergence of quantitiy-sensitivity in Latin: Secondary stress, lambic Shortening and theorectical implications for "mixed" stress systems



Some interactions between word, foot and syllable structure in the history of the Spanish language



The emergence of palatal sonorants and alternating diphthongs in Old Spanish



The emergence of contrastive palatalization in Russian




Case Studies of Syntactic Change


How to rank constraints: Constraint conflict, grammatical competition and the rise of periphrastic do



Historical changes in verb-second and null subjects from Old to Modern French



Bibliography on Optimality Theory and language change



References


Indices: Names, Languages, Constraints, Terms