The Role of the Lexicon in Optimality Theoretic Syntax
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Research in Optimality Theoretic syntax tends to focus on language universals and the prediction of systematic language-particular properties by means of constraint interaction, often appealing to the principle of Richness of the Base. However, this has left the role and formal status of the lexicon in such models largely uninvestig-
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تاریخ انتشار 2004