Competition in Syntax

Publisher Marketing: Over the last decade, the notion of competition has come to play a major role in syntactic theory, particularly in minimalist and optimality-theoretic syntax. According to this view, a sentence can only be grammatical if it is optimal in a set of competing candidates with respect to a given evaluationmetric-economy in the minimalist program, quality of constraint profile in optimality theory. Focussing on the latter, the contributions in this book critically investigate the viability of competition in syntax.