International Journal of Language and Linguistics

Special Issue

The Optimality Theory: Its Foundation, Components, and Principles

  • Submission Deadline: Aug. 20, 2020
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Israa Burhan Abdurrahman
About This Special Issue
It is a fact that any new theory puts old questions into a new light. However, to achieve the goals of linguistic theory is what a linguistic theory should concern itself with whatever field it tackles. Optimality theory is a modern linguistic theory that aims at describing and explaining languages in a new framework. It is considered to be a radical departure from the derivational model of the previous versions of generative phonology. It assumes that grammars of individual languages draw their basic options from a set of universal constraints. It achieved universality by the ranking and the reranking of such constrains. These constraints are considered to be a detailed description of linguistic phenomenon in different languages.
Aims and Scope:
  1. Linguistic Theory
  2. Optimality Theory
  3. Universality
  4. Parallelism
  5. Constraints
  6. Fallacy of Perfection
Lead Guest Editor
  • Israa Burhan Abdurrahman

    Department of English, College of Education for Women, University of Tikrit, Tikrit, Iraq

Guest Editors
  • María Ángeles García Collado

    Instituto Cervantes, Tetuán, Morocco