Abstract
AbstractIn the mid-1990s, Optimality Theory (OT) was an immediate success within phonological theory. Within a few years, the theory became a lingua franca of phonologists. People would not just work on the theoretical aspects of OT, but also used it to present their results that might also have easily been presented in other frameworks. An unforeseen result of this immense popularity was that the theory had to very rapidly expand its theoretical coverage; and a result of this in turn was that many proposals came on the market to deal with opacity, with faithfulness relations beyond input-output and with language variation and lexical exceptions. If we take all of these proposals, the theory probably overgenerates massively; but that does not take away from its original appeal.
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