Jason Mattausch

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jason Mattausch is involved.

Title

Bidirectional Optimality Theory

Edited by Anton Benz and Jason Mattausch

Bidirectional Optimality Theory (BiOT) emerged at the turn of the millennium as a fusion of Radical Pragmatics and Optimality Theoretic Semantics. It stirred a wealth of new research in the pragmatics‑semantics interface and heavily influenced e.g. the development of evolutionary and game theoretic… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 180] 2011. v, 279 pp.

Articles

Benz, Anton and Jason Mattausch 2011 Bidirectional Optimality Theory: An introduction Bidirectional Optimality Theory, Benz, Anton and Jason Mattausch (eds.), pp. 1–32 | Article

Mattausch, Jason 2011 A note on the emergence of subject salience Bidirectional Optimality Theory, Benz, Anton and Jason Mattausch (eds.), pp. 73–96 | Article

This paper demonstrates a potential explanation for the salience of grammatical subjects using a statistically driven, evolutionary model based on bidirectional Optimality Theory.