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TitleObject Agreement in Palauan: Specificity, Humanness, Economy, and Optimality
PublisherGLSA (Graduate Linguistic Student Association), Dept. of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts
Date Created1995
Extent45 p.
DescriptionComplex conditions on object agreement and preposition insertion in Palauan, conditioned by aspect, specificity, number, and humanness, are shown to follow from a modified version of Diesing's Mapping Hypothesis interacting with (ranked with respect to) two economy (faithfulness) principles, Avoid Movement and Avoid Insertion. The radical difference that aspect makes in the treatment of objects is shown to fall out if one economy principle is re-ranked in the perfective aspect.
NoteThe definitive version of this paper was published in Papers in Optimality Theory (1995)
NoteWoolford, E. (1995). Object agreement in Palauan: Specificity, humanness, economy and optimality. In J.N. Beckman, L.W. Dickey, & S. Urbanczyk (Eds.) Papers in optimality theory (pp. 655-700). Amherst, MA: GLSA (Graduate Linguistic Student Association), Dept. of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts.
GenreArticle, Refereed
LanguageEnglish
CollectionRutgers Optimality Archive
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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