Optimizing Structure in Context: Scrambling and Information Structure

This book examines the scrambling phenomena in German and Korean from the perspective that different ordering possibilities are motivated and constrained by interactions among syntactic, semantic, and discourse principles. Using Optimality Theory. Optimizing Structure in Context demonstrates how these principles from different modules of grammar interact and thus resolve conflicts among themselves to yield the most optimal output. By expanding the core idea of constraint interaction in Optimality Theory. to interactions "between" modules of grammar as well as "within", this book provides a model of interface theory.