Optimality Theory and Pragmatics

✍ Scribed by Reinhard Blutner, Henk Zeevat (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 316
Series: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Editors’ Introduction: Pragmatics in Optimality Theory....Pages 1-24
On the Interpretation of Stressed Pronouns....Pages 25-41
Optimization in Focus Identification....Pages 42-62
Optimality Theoretic Pragmatics and Binding Phenomena....Pages 63-90
Particles: Presupposition Triggers, Context Markers or Speech Act Markers....Pages 91-111
Input-Output Mismatches in Optimality Theory....Pages 112-153
On the Optimality Theoretic Status of “Unambiguous Encoding”....Pages 154-172
Relevance and Bidirectional Optimality Theory....Pages 173-210
Remarks on the Architecture of Optimality Theoretic Syntax Grammars....Pages 211-227
Variation in Demonstrative Choice in Swedish....Pages 228-250
Learning Constraint Subhierarchies: The Bidirectional Gradual Learning Algorithm....Pages 251-287
Back Matter....Pages 288-304

✦ Subjects

Grammar; Psycholinguistics; Pragmatics; Pragmatism

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