The nature, use and origin of explanatory adequacy
- If we want to compare the explanatory and descriptive adequacy of the MP and OT, the original definitions by Chomsky (1964) are or little direct use. However, a relativized version of both notions can be defined, which can be used to express a number of parallels between the study of individual I-languages and the language faculty. In any version of explanatory and descriptive adequacy, the two notions derive from the research programme and can only be achieved together. They can therefore not be used to characterize the difference in orientation between OT and the MP. Even if ‘OT’ is restricted to a particular theory in Chomskyan linguistics (to the exclusion of, for instance, its use in LFG), it cannot be said to be stronger in descriptive adequacy than in explanatory adequacy in the technical sense of these terms.
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| Author details: | Pius ten Hacken |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-32297 |
| ISSN: | 1616-7392 |
| ISSN: | 1864-1857 |
| Title of parent work (German): | Linguistics in Potsdam |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Publication year: | 2006 |
| Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
| Release date: | 2009/06/24 |
| Tag: | Chomskyan linguistics; Levels of adequacy; Minimalist Program; Optimality Theory; research programme |
| Issue: | 25 |
| First page: | 9 |
| Last Page: | 32 |
| 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 (2006) 25 |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft |
| License (German): |  Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |
| External remark: | Zugleich in Printform erschienen im Universitätsverlag Potsdam: Optimality theory and minimalism: A possible convergence? / Hans Broekhuis & Ralf Vogel (eds.) - Potsdam : Univ.-Verl., 2006. - vii, 231 S. (Linguistics in Potsdam ; 25) ISSN 1616-7392 ISBN 978-3-939469-54-4 --> Bestellen |
