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Contribution to Book
Sympathy, cumulativity, and the Duke-of-York gambit
The Syllable in Optimality Theory
(2003)
Abstract
The Duke-of-York gambit (Pullum 1976) involves derivations of the form A->B->A, where underlying /A/ passes through an intermediate stage B before returning to A at the surface. Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993) has significant implications for the Duke of York gambit. Furthermore, attested and unattested Duke-of-York cases have implications for the analysis of opacity in Optimality Theory using sympathy (McCarthy 1998, to appear). A key idea pursued in this paper is that derivations must be cumulative, and a measure of cumulativity is incorporated into sympathy theory.
Disciplines
Publication Date
2003
Editor
Caroline FĂ©ry and Ruben van de Vijver
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Citation Information
John J McCarthy. "Sympathy, cumulativity, and the Duke-of-York gambit" CambridgeThe Syllable in Optimality Theory (2003) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/john_j_mccarthy/80/