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The purpose of this chapter is to show how recent advances in Optimality Theory can contribute to recent advances in the study of the syntax/pragmatics interface. In particular, I wish to show how proposals of Levinson (2000), which aim toward a pragmatic reduction of Chomsky’s Binding Conditions (Chomsky, 1980), can be stated somewhat more elegantly and can potentially be improved upon in other ways when recast in the Bidirectional Optimality Theory advocated by Blutner (2000), Jäger (2002) and Zeevat (2000).
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Mattausch, J. (2004). Optimality Theoretic Pragmatics and Binding Phenomena. In: Blutner, R., Zeevat, H. (eds) Optimality Theory and Pragmatics. Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230501409_4
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