A Synchronic and Diachronic Study of Declension Paradigms in the Indo-European Languages on the Basis of Harmonic Grammar

这项研究表明，在有限的印欧语言(如德语、古英语、古弗里斯语)中，从一组标记和忠实约束(最优化理论中的约束排序和调和语法中约束的数字权重)之间的相互作用中，可以得出不同类型范例之间的类型差异。此外，本研究通过对德语变态范式的研究表明，名词、形容词和冠词的变态范式是协同工作的，并提出将变态范式视为名词短语中观察到的构式现象。

This research has shown that it is possible to derive the typological variations among declensional paradigms in a limited range of Indo-European languages (e.g. German, Old English, Old Frisian) from the interaction among a set of markedness and faithfulness constraints (constraint ranking in Optimality Theory and numeral weighting of constraints in Harmonic Grammar). Furthermore, this research has shown through the study of the declensional paradigms in German that paradigms of nouns, adjectives, and articles work in tandem and has proposed to treat the declensional paradigms as constructional phenomena observed in noun phrases.