Optimality Theory and Pragmatics

by Edited by Reinhard Blutner and Henk Zeevat

• ISBN13: 9781403901293
• ISBN10: 1403901295
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2004-03-18
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Ten leading scholars provide exacting research results and a reliable and accessible introduction to the new field of optimality theoretic pragmatics. The book includes a general introduction that overviews the foundations of this new research paradigm. The book is intended to satisfy the needs of students and professional researchers interested in pragmatics and optimality theory, and will be of particular interest to those exploring the interfaces of formal pragmatics with grammar, semantics, philosophy of language, information theory and cognitive psychology.

Author Biography

Reinhard Blutner is Privatdozent at the Humboldt-University in Berlin, and is currently a lecturer in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam.

Henk Zeevat is a Senior Lecturer in Computational Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	viii
Notes on the Contributors	ix
1 Editors' Introduction: Pragmatics In Optimality Theory	1	(24)
Reinhard Blutner and Henk Zeevat
2 On the Interpretation of Stressed Pronouns	25	(17)
Helen de Hoop
3 Optimization in Focus Identification	42	(21)
Petra Hendriks
4 Optimality Theoretic Pragmatics and Binding Phenomena	63	(28)
Jason Mattausch
5 Particles: Presupposition Triggers, Context Markers or Speech Act Markers	91	(21)
Henk Zeevat
6 Input-Output Mismatches in Optimality Theory	112	(42)
David Beaver and Hanjung Lee
7 On the Optimality Theoretic Status of "Unambiguous Encoding"	154	(19)
Hans-Martin Gartner
8 Relevance and Bidirectional Optimality Theory	173	(38)
Robert van Rooy
9 Remarks on the Architecture of Optimality Theoretic Syntax Grammars	211	(17)
Ralf Vogel
10 Variation in Demonstrative Choice In Swedish	228	(23)
Jennifer Spenader
11 Learning Constraint Subhierarchies: The Bidirectional Gradual Learning Algorithm	251	(37)
Gerhard Jager
References	288	(11)
Author Index	299	(3)
Subject Index	302