34.2541, Books: The Mother of All Tableaux: Merchant, Prince (2023)

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Date: 21-Aug-2023
From: Janet Joyce [jjoyce at equinoxpub.com]
Subject: The Mother of All Tableaux: Merchant, Prince (2023)


Title: The Mother of All Tableaux
Subtitle: Order, Equivalence, and Geometry in the Large-scale
Structure of Optimality Theory
Series Title: Advances in Optimality Theory
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
                http://www.equinoxpub.com/
Book URL: https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/mother-tableaux/

Author: Nazarré Merchant
Author: Alan Prince
Hardback: ISBN: 9781781798997 Pages: 368 Price: U.S. $ 100
Electronic: ISBN: 9781781799000 Pages: 368 Price: U.S. $ 100
Abstract:

An Optimality Theoretic grammar arises from the comparison of
candidates over a set of constraints, oriented toward obtaining
certain of those candidates as optimal. The typology of a specified
system collects its grammars, encompassing all total domination orders
among the posited constraints. Considerable progress has been made in
understanding the internal structure of Optimality Theoretic grammars
but, in this book, we move up a level from grammar to typology,
probing the structure that emerges from the most basic commitments of
the theory.
Comparison is once again central: a constraint viewed at the
typological level rates entire grammars against each other. From this
perspective, the constraint goes beyond its familiar role as an engine
of comparison based on quantitative penalties and instead takes the
form of a more abstract order and equivalence structure. This
“Equivalence-augmented Privileged Order” (EPO) can be presented as a
kind of enriched Hasse diagram. The collection of the EPOs, one for
each constraint, forms the MOAT, the “Mother of All Tableaux”. The
EPOs of a typology’s unique MOAT are respected in every violation
tableau associated with it.
With the MOAT concept in place, it becomes possible to understand
exactly which sets of disjoint grammars constitute valid typologies.
This finding provides the conditions under which grammars of a given
typology can merge to produce another, simpler typology and thereby
abstract away informatively from various differences between them.
Geometrically, the MOAT concept enables us to show, following the
insights of Jason Riggle, that the grammars of a typology neatly
partition its representation on the permutohedron into connected,
spherically convex regions.
Discussion proceeds along both concrete and abstract lines,
facilitating access for readers across a wide range of interests.

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology

Written In: English (eng)

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