call abstracts optimality syntactic theory content length 4437 call papers best good enough workshop optimality syntactic theory held massachusetts institute technology cambridge may 1921 1995 syntactic research variety frameworks assigning growing role notion comparison work forefront current research includes theories involving principles economy optimality much work still unpublished formative stages legendre raymond smolensky 1993 grimshaw 1993 pesetsky 1994 chomsky 1989 1993 1994 relevant data vary one account another empirical comparisons proposals undertaken may 1921 1995 mit hosting workshop explore clarify particular issues syntactic theories comparison plays significant role workshop consist invited talks talks selected anonymously submitted abstracts abstracts invited address following questions nature candidate reference set comparison linguistic objects compete best choice criteria determine optimal output set candidates grammar compare derivations economy principles chomsky 1989 1993 representations optimality theoretic analyses developed phonology prince smolensky 1993 language acquisition variation explained parameterization constraint reranking computational implications requirements different approaches invited talks presented joan bresnan stanford noam chomsky mit jane grimshaw rutgers david pesetsky mit paul smolensky geraldine legendre johns hopkins university edward stabler ucla submissions consideration must received march 15 1994 via mail fax transmission authors whose abstracts accepted requested provide complete paper mid april prepare focused discussion may able assist travel costs student unemployed presenters eight nine 30 minute time slots reserved accepted papers additional 10 minutes questions discussion abstracts anonymous longer two pages mailing address good enough mit 20d219 77 massachusetts avenue cambridge 02139 mailings include six copies anonymous abstract cover sheet indicating paper title author name affiliation address phone number email address fax transmissions may made 617 2535017 attention david pesetsky also include cover sheet questions may addressed email goodenough mit edu detailed conference information also made available via anonymous ftp broca mit edu pub goodenough directory references cited chomsky n 1989 notes economy derivation representation laka mahajan ed _ mit working papers linguistics 10 cambridge mit working papers linguistics chomsky n 1993 minimalist program linguistic theory hale k j keyser ed _ view building 20 _ cambridge mit press chomsky n 1994 bare phrase structure occasional paper 5 cambridge mit working papers linguistics grimshaw j 1993 minimal projection heads optimality ms rutgers university available anonymous ftp ruccs rutgers edu pub ot papers minproj ps appear linguistic inquiry legendre g w raymond p smolensky 1993 optimality theoretic typology case grammatical voice systems _ proceedings nineteenth annual meeting berkeley linguistic society _ berkeley ca 464478 pesetsky prep _ syntax edge optimality effects sentence grammar _ handouts available anonymous ftp ruccs rutgers edu pub ot papers sentpron ps prince p smolensky 1993 _ optimality theory constraint interaction generative grammar _ ruccs technical report 2 rutgers university center cognitive science piscataway new jersey appear mit press