The Role of the Lexicon in Optimality Theoretic Syntax

Research in Optimality Theoretic syntax tends to focus on language universals and the prediction of systematic language-particular properties by means of constraint interaction, often appealing to the principle of Richness of the Base . However, this has left the role and formal status of the lexicon in such models largely uninvestig-

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