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Coordination in Optimality Theory1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2010

Miklós Gáspár
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Eötvös Lorénd University, School of English and American Studies, Department of English Linguistics, Ajtósi Durer sor 19-21, Budapest, H-1146, Hungary. Email: Miklos@matdvnet.hu
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The paper offers an account of coordination within the framework of Optimality Theory, which makes use of violable and ranked constraints. Coordination is explained with the help of nine constraints, seven of which are needed in the theory independently of coordination, while the remaining two are coordination-specific constraints. Related phenomena of Unbalanced Coordination and Extraordinary Balanced Coordination are also discussed and differences among Norwegian, English and Hungarian are explained by the difference in the relative ranking of the four relevant constraints.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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