This is a collection of papers that involves a new approach to syntax bringing together Optimality Theory (OT) and Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG). Its importance is precisely in this new approach, which differs from other OT approaches to syntax. The papers involve analysis of certain kinds of linguistic data, as well as more technical questions of the formal foundations, and of the utility of the approach in (industrial) natural language processing applications.

Contributors: Joan Bresnan, Ash Asudeh, Hanjung Lee, Hye-Won Choi, Cathryn Donohue, Devyani Sharma, Yukiko Morimoto, Anette Frank, Mary Dalrymple, Miriam Butt, Jonas Kuhn, Tracy Holloway King, John Maxwell