Derivations and Evaluations

Download or read book Derivations and Evaluations written by Hans Broekhuis and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-27 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study shows that Scandinavian object shift and so-called A-scrambling in the continental Germanic languages are the same, and aims at providing an account of the variation that we find with respect to this phenomenon by combining certain aspects of the Minimalist Program and Optimality Theory. More specifically, it is claimed that representations created by a simplified version of the computational system of human language CHL are evaluated in an optimality theoretic fashion by taking recourse to a very small set of output constraints.