Author: Bresnan, Joan. 

Date: February 18, 1999

Title: Explaining Morphosyntactic Competition

Email: bresnan@stanford.edu

Format: postscript

Remarks: To appear in Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory, ed. by Mark
Baltin and Chris Collins.  Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.  Final
revision, February 18, 1999. 49 pages (postscript).  Available on the
Rutgers Optimality Archive: (ROA-299-0299).

Abstract: I compare lexical blocking theories with OT constraint
ranking in morphosyntax, focusing on the morphosyntax of negation in
several English dialects, including Standard English, Scots English,
and Hiberno-English.