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This paper illustrates the application of Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993) to the domain of morphosyntax. It deals with a strictly delineated set of data, concerning the behavior of clitic combinations in the Romance languages, and draws very heavily on research presented in Bonet (1991, 1995).
The research reported here was supported by grant SBR-9511891 from the National Science Foundation by Rutgers University. It has benefited from presentation at Keio University, Stanford University, the University of California at Santa Cruz, and the Third Australian Linguistic Institute at the Australian National University. Special thanks to the Rutgers Optimality Research Group, in particular Eric Bakovic, Ed Keer, Suzanne Preuss, Alan Prince, Melissa Trachtenburg and Vieri Samek-Lodovici for much helpful discussion, and to Eric Bakovic for important insights concerning Spanish.
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Grimshaw, J. (1997). The Best Clitic: Constraint Conflict in Morphosyntax. In: Haegeman, L. (eds) Elements of Grammar. Kluwer International Handbooks of Linguistics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5420-8_4
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