Index of subjects
448
deletion 67
consonant deletion 134, 380
vowel deletion (see syncope)
derivation 57– 8, 185–7, 238, 280
derivational theory 57– 8
derived environment effect 75
distinctive feature 3, 36, 71, 127, 408
do-only-when-necessary (see economy)
domination 13
strict domination 22–3, 344, 400, 405
Duplication Problem 56, 84, 381
economy 21, 74, 104–7, 343, 357
emergence of the unmarked 130, 206–7,
209–10, 215–16, 222
epenthesis 68, 98–100, 124–5
consonant epenthesis 105
vowel epenthesis 106, 112, 126, 133, 287
subminimal epenthesis 144, 166
Evaluator (
Eval) 19, 20–5
extrametricality 149, 166
extraprosodicity 124
factorial typology 35, 171, 239, 366, 412
faithfulness 5–6, 10, 55, 74, 200, 211, 414
faithfulness constraint 10, 14, 200, 350
positional faithfulness 407–13
root faithfulness 76
fallacy of perfection 16
foot 142, 145, 147
foot distribution (parsing) 162–5, 167–70
foot well-formedness 161, 172– 4
free variation (see optionality)
Freedom of Analysis 20, 25, 53–5, 344, 417
functional motivation 6–7, 10, 421
functionally related processes 56, 87, 139, 177
Generative Grammar 1, 296
Generator (Gen) 19, 20, 54–5, 204, 303,
345–7
grammar 1, 8, 422
components of
19
structure of 18–21, 382
grammatical word 118, 152, 166
grounding of constraints 5, 11, 61, 94, 144, 241,
381, 408
harmony 3, 8–9, 16–17, 151, 344
harmony scale 44, 409
identity (see base identity and reduplicant)
implicational universal 93– 4
infixation 121– 4, 224–5
input 8, 19–20, 33, 57– 8, 322, 324, 344–5,
378–81, 413–14
intermediate levels 57– 8, 280, 376, 381–5
language acquisition 1, 296, 336–7
learnability 296
of serial grammar 186, 286–7
of lexical representations 322, 329, 334
of OT grammar 296–7, 407
of output representations 322
lexical representation 33, 413, 415
lexicon 19, 32– 4, 415
Lexicon Optimization 32–3, 329–30, 334,
414
licensing 409–11
linguistic theory 1–3
goals of 1
Local Conjunction 392–400
Mark Cancellation 306
Mark-Data pairs 304
markedness
2–3, 4–5, 44
markedness constraint 9–10 (see also Index of
constraints)
context-free markedness constraint 28, 125
context-sensitive markedness constraint
28, 125
markedness scales 44
metathesis 63
Minimalism 343
Morpheme Structure Constraint 20, 56
morphology 3, 19, 115, 194, 274
morphological category (constituent) 118–19
morphological constraint 122, 217–18
morphological edge 75, 115, 135
morphological feature 282
morphological rule (process, operation)
197,
223– 4, 262, 273, 282
morphological truncation (see truncation)
morphologically related 263, 281–2, 415
morphology-phonology interface 25, 118,
122– 4, 197, 223–5, 262
neutralization 14, 29, 30, 36
complete neutralization 36
positional neutralization
38–9, 407–8
opacity 372–4
optimality 12–13
Optimality Theory
and goals of linguistic theory 3–4
basic ideas of 3–4, 8–13
comparison with derivational (rule-based)
theory
52– 8, 86– 8, 138–9, 187– 8,
237– 8, 262, 273, 285–7
optionality 404–7
output 3, 8, 12–13, 56, 58, 87, 401, 404, 420
nonunique output 405
output candidate 20
candidate set 8, 25–7
faithfulness to (see Sympathy)