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Date: 07-Dec-2011
From: Paul Peranteau [paul at benjamins.com]
Subject: Bidirectional Optimality Theory: Benz, Mattausch (Eds)


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Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:58:50
From: Paul Peranteau [paul at benjamins.com]
Subject: Bidirectional Optimality Theory: Benz, Mattausch (Eds)

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Title: Bidirectional Optimality Theory 
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 180  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/la.180 


Editor: Anton Benz
Editor: Jason Mattausch

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027284525 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027284525 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027255631 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027255631 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027255631 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

"Bidirectional Optimality Theory" (BiOT) emerged at the turn of the 
millennium as a fusion of Radical Pragmatics and Optimality Theoretic 
Semantics. It stirred a wealth of new research in the pragmatics‑semantics 
interface and heavily influenced e.g. the development of evolutionary and game 
theoretic approaches. Optimality Theory holds that linguistic output can be 
understood as the optimized products of ranked constraints. At the centre of 
BiOT is the insight that this optimisation has to take place both in production 
and interpretation, and that the production-interpretation cycle has to lead back 
to the original input. BiOT is now generally interpreted as a description of 
diachronically stable and cognitively optimal form-meaning pairs. It found 
applications beyond the semantics-pragmatics interface in language acquisition, 
historical linguistics, phonology, syntax, and typology. This book provides a 
state of the art overview of these developments. It collects nine chapters by 
leading scientists in the field. 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Pragmatics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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