DescriptionThis issue of Linguistics in Potsdam contains a number of papers that grew out of the workshop Descriptive and Empirical Adequacy in Linguistics held in Berlin on December 17-19 December, 2005. One of the goals of this meeting was to bring together scholars working in various frameworks (with emphasis on the Minimalist Program and Optimality Theory) and to discuss matters concerning descriptive and empirical adequacy. Another explicit goal was to discuss the question whether Minimalism and Optimality Theory should be considered incompatible and, hence, competing theories, or whether the two frameworks should rather be considered complementary in certain respects (see http://let.uvt.nl/deal05/call.html for the call for papers). Five of the seven papers in this volume directly grew out of the oral presentations given at the workshop.
NoteThis is the editors' final version of the book Linguistics in Potsdam 25 (2006), published by Universitätsbibliothek, Potsdam.
NoteBroekhuis, H., Vogel, R. (2006). Optimality theory and minimalism: A possible convergence?. Potsdam: Universitätsbibliothek.
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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