Non-conflicting violations of grammatical constraints? Logophoric reflexives, peculiar passives, and gricean implicatures

This paper discusses the notion of grammatical well-formedness in the light of certain optimality approaches to syntactic phenomena (e.g.,Pesetsky 1998; Grimshaw 1997; Grimshaw & Samek-Lodovici 1995; Costa 1998). Such approaches adhere to assumptions that lead to the following theorem: a lingui...

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Main Author: Sergio de Moura Menuzzi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2004-01-01
Series:Ilha do Desterro
Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/7381
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