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Optimality Theory - An Introduction (Paperback)
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Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language
and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, RWTH Aachen
University, language: English, abstract: The linguistic model
Optimality Theory was for the first time proposed by the linguist
Alan Prince (Rutgers University, New Jersey) in cooperation with
his colleague Paul Smolensky (John Hopkins University, Baltimore)
in the year 1993. This representational model has - since then -
been constantly expanded for instance owing to the work of John J.
McCarthy (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and other scholars
such as Rene Kager in the Netherlands or Caroline Fery in Germany.
The studies conducted in this term paper are primarily based upon
the work of the aforementioned scholars with a particular focus on
the examinations by the three 'fathers' of Optimality Theory, viz.
Prince, Smolensky and McCarthy. Another fact revealing that this
model is a current and productive one - i.e. beside the spreading
and development of Optimality Theory all over the linguistic world
- is its applicability to different subfields of linguistics,
namely phonology, syntax and morphology. With reference to its wide
use, it should be said that this term paper predominantly examines
the phonological applicability of this linguistic model. The theory
itself borrows fundamental aspects from Generative Grammar such as
the role of Universal Principles in language, which will be pointed
out as one of the most important pillars of Optimality Theory in
the course of this paper. In addition to explaining the fundamental
principles and processes in Optimality Theory such as the roles of
constraints and various other functions as for example GEN or EVAL
in a general introduction (chapter 2), I will also report on two
case-studies (chapter 3): one on Tagalog prefix infixation already
examined by Prince and Smolensky and one on German Final Devoicing
worked upon by Fery. The examination of these particular
case-studies shall prove tha"
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