TY - BOOK AU - Kuhn,Jonas TI - Optimality-theoretic syntax: a declarative approach T2 - Studies in constraint-based lexicalism SN - 1575864258 U1 - 405.01 20A PY - 2003/// CY - Stanford PB - CSLI Publications, Center for the Study of Language and Information N1 - Index; Bibliogr. p. 219-227; 1. Introduction ; 1.2 The foundations of optimality theory -- 2.1 Conflicting violable constraints ; 2.2 Factorial typology and the grounding of constraints ; 2.3 Summary -- 3 some observations about optimality-theoretic syntax -- 3.1 On the motivation of syntactic OT constraints ; 3.2 Faithfulness violations in phonology and syntax ; 3.3 Learning and the character of the input ; 3.4 Summary -- 4. The formalization of OT syntax in the LFG framework ; 4.1 Background on the lexical-functional grammar (LFG) formalism ; 4.2 Optimality-theoretic LFG: the overall architecture ; 4.3 Candidate generation and the inviolable principles ; 4.4 The violable constraints: markedness constraints ; 4.5 Faithfulness constraints ; 4.6 Summary -- 5. The direction of optimization ; 5.1 Varying the input to optimization ; 5.2 The character of comprehension-based optimization ; 5.3 Bidirectional optimization ; 5.4 Summary -- 6. Computational OT syntax ; 6.1 Processing issues for OT-LFG ; 6.2. Decidability of OT-LFG generation ; 6.3 Recognition and parsing for OT-LFG ; 6.4 Summary -- 7. Conclusion ER -