Title | Optimality Theory and Language Change [electronic resource] / edited by D. Eric Holt |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2003 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0195-3 |
Descript | XI, 463 p. online resource |
I: Optimality Theory And Language Change: Overview and Theoretical Issues -- Remarks on Optimality Theory and language change -- The odds of eternal optimization in Optimality Theory -- On re-ranking and explanatory adequacy in a constraint-based theory of phonological change -- The actuation problem in Optimality Theory: Phonologization, rule inversion and rule loss -- When history doesnโt repeat itself: Optimality Theory and implausible sound changes -- Language change without constraint reranking -- II: Case Studies Of Phonological Change -- English vowel shifts and โoptimalโ diphthongs: Is there a logical link? -- Merger avoidance and lexical reconstruction: An OT model of the Great Vowel Shift -- The emergence of quantity-sensitivity in Latin: Secondary stress, Iambic Shortening and theoretical implications for โmixedโ stress systems -- Some interactions between word, foot and syllable structure in the history of the Spanish language -- The emergence of palatal sonorants and alternating diphthongs in Old Spanish -- The emergence of contrastive palatalization in Russian -- III: Case Studies of Syntactic Change -- How to rank constraints: Constraint conflict, grammatical competition and the rise of periphrastic do -- Historical changes in verb-second and null subjects from Old to Modern French -- Bibliography on Optimality Theory and language change -- References -- Indices -- Names -- Languages -- Constraints -- Terms