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Optimality Theory and Pragmatics

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Editors:
  1. Reinhard Blutner

    1. Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany

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  2. Henk Zeevat

    1. Department of Computational Linguistics and at the ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Editors’ Introduction: Pragmatics in Optimality Theory

    • Reinhard Blutner, Henk Zeevat
    Pages 1-24

  3. On the Interpretation of Stressed Pronouns

    • Helen de Hoop
    Pages 25-41

  4. Optimization in Focus Identification

    • Petra Hendriks
    Pages 42-62

  5. Optimality Theoretic Pragmatics and Binding Phenomena

    • Jason Mattausch
    Pages 63-90

  6. Particles: Presupposition Triggers, Context Markers or Speech Act Markers

    • Henk Zeevat
    Pages 91-111

  7. Input-Output Mismatches in Optimality Theory

    • David Beaver, Hanjung Lee
    Pages 112-153

  8. On the Optimality Theoretic Status of “Unambiguous Encoding”

    • Hans-Martin Gärtner
    Pages 154-172

  9. Relevance and Bidirectional Optimality Theory

    • Robert van Rooy
    Pages 173-210

  10. Remarks on the Architecture of Optimality Theoretic Syntax Grammars

    • Ralf Vogel
    Pages 211-227

  11. Variation in Demonstrative Choice in Swedish

    • Jennifer Spenader
    Pages 228-250

  12. Learning Constraint Subhierarchies: The Bidirectional Gradual Learning Algorithm

    • Gerhard Jäger
    Pages 251-287

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 288-304
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About this book

Ten leading scholars provide exacting research results and a reliable and accessible introduction to the new field of optimality theoretic pragmatics. The book includes a general introduction that overviews the foundations of this new research paradigm. The book is intended to satisfy the needs of students and professional researchers interested in pragmatics and optimality theory, and will be of particular interest to those exploring the interfaces of formal pragmatics with grammar, semantics, philosophy of language, information theory and cognitive psychology.

Reviews

'This collection clearly demonstrates that Optimality Theory finds fruitful applications in the domain of pragmatics. The papers show how to overcome the traditional gap between linguistic meaning and utterance meaning. Conceptions like relevance, conversational implicature, pragmatic anomaly, grammaticalization, recoverability, and constructional iconicity appear in a new light'. - Manfred Krifka, Professor in General Linguistics, Insititute for German Speech and Linguistics, Humboldt University, Germany

'Though the idea of optimization was present in the pragmatic enterprise from the very beginning, we had to wait for this collection in order to see how to integrate pragmatics into Optimality Theory.' - Professor Paul Smolensky, Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University

Editors and Affiliations

  • Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany

    Reinhard Blutner

  • Department of Computational Linguistics and at the ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Henk Zeevat

About the editors

DAVID BEAVER Faculty member at the Linguistics Department, Stanford University and Affiliate of the Symbolic Systems Program, USA HELEN DE HOOP Assistant Professor in General Linguistics, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands HANS-MARTIN GÄRTNER Assistant Director at ZAS, Berlin PETRA HENDRIKS Assistant Professor at the Departments of Dutch and Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, Sweden GERHARD JÄGER Privatdozent, Computational Linguistics Department, Potsdam University HANJUNG LEE Postdoctoral Fellow in the Cognitive Science Program, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA JASON MATTAUSCH Research Assistant, Zentrum für allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin JENNIFER SPENADER Graduate Student, Computational Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University ROBERT VAN ROOY is a KNAW-Fellow working on the project Games, Relevance and Meaning at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Amsterdam RALF VOGEL Research Assistant, Institute of Linguistics, University of Potsdam

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Optimality Theory and Pragmatics

  • Editors: Reinhard Blutner, Henk Zeevat

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230501409

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-0129-3Published: 19 December 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-50764-1Published: 19 December 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50140-9Published: 19 December 2003

  • Series ISSN: 2946-2576

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-2584

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 304

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Grammar, Psycholinguistics, Pragmatics, Pragmatism

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