Last Resorts and Grammaticality
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Every winning candidate (grammatical output) is a last resort under OT. It is the best one (or within the set of the best ones) left after the impossible have been eliminated: the last one standing. I will refer to the observation that grammatical structures have a last resort appearance as the Last Resort (LR) effect. The LR effect is a theorem of OT. There is no “Last Resort” principle or constraint. There are no stipulations that a particular process or structure is possible only as a last resort. The LR effect follows from the very theory of competition and constraint interaction that determines grammatical well-formedness. At the heart of OT (Prince and Smolensky1993/2002, 2004) is a principle which chooses an optimum among a set of competitors which do not violate the same constraints. Other components of OT, in particular GEN, the set of
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