Journal article
Indeterminacy by underspecification
- Abstract:
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We examine the formal encoding of feature indeterminacy, focussing on case indeterminacy as an exemplar of the phenomenon. Forms that are indeterminately specified for the value of a feature can simultaneously satisfy conflicting requirements on that feature and thus are a challenge to constraint-based formalisms which model the compatibility of information carried by linguistic items by combining or integrating that information. Much previous work in constraint-based formalisms has sought to...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS
- Volume:
- 45
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 31-68
- Publication date:
- 2009-03-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1469-7742
- ISSN:
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0022-2267
- Source identifiers:
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145449
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pubs:145449
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- 2012-12-19
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- 2009
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