A short treatise of optimality theory

ContentsIntroductionChapter 1 Fundamentals of the OT approach to grammar1.1 Motivating a conflict-tolerant type of grammar 1.2 Overview of OT Chapter 2 Conflicts2.1 Faithful or simple? A first source for conflicts 2.2 Markedness competing with Markedness 2.3 Alignment Constraints Chapter 3 Universality and Free Ranking3 .1 Universality 3 .2 Markedness as a basis for the universal component of OT 3.3 Factorial Typology 3.4 Markedness hierarchies and Harmonic AlignmentChapter 4 Uncompromising decision taking4.1 Unique winners as a consequence of the lexicographic decision-taking 4.2 There is always a winner 4.3 No optionality 4.4 No gradient judgements 4.5 No compensatory effects 4.6. Multiply violable constraints 4.7 Self-Conjunction of Constraints as Multiple Violation References