Deriving pairedness in vP structure

Minimalist accounts lack a natural theory of markedness, whereas Optimality-Theoretical accounts fundamentally encode markedness. We think the duality of interfaces assumed in Minimalism is a step towards explaining pairedness behavior, where a given language exhibits a marked/ unmarked pair of items occupying the same niche. We argue that while Minimalism articulates the derivational aspect of language, and underlies grammaticality, an Optimality Theoretic articulation of PF and LF is conceptually natural and explains pairedness behavior. We adopt this ‘hybrid’ account, first, to explain the existence of marked (often termed ‘reflexive’) and unmarked anticausatives in German, recently studied in depth by Sch¨afer [2007].

Metadaten
Author details:	Kyle Wade Grove, Mike Putnam
URN:	urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-32284
ISSN:	1616-7392
ISSN:	1864-1857
Title of parent work (German):	Linguistics in Potsdam
Subtitle (German):	minimalist yet optimal
Publication type:	Article
Language:	English
Publication year:	2009
Publishing institution:	Universität Potsdam
Release date:	2009/06/24
Issue:	28
First page:	187
Last Page:	210
RVK - Regensburg classification:	EQ 3310
Organizational units:	Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik
DDC classification:	4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Collection(s):	Universität Potsdam / Schriftenreihen / Linguistics in Potsdam: LIP, ISSN 1864-1857 / LIP (2009) 28
Institution name at the time of the publication:	Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
License (German):	Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz
External remark:	In Printform erschienen im Universitätsverlag Potsdam: Broekhuis, Hans: Optimality theory and minimalism : interface theories / Hans Broekhuis, Ralf Vogel (eds.) Potsdam : Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2009. - 212 S. ISSN 1616-7392 ISBN 978-3-940793-61-4 --> bestellen