This thesis provides an analysis of scrambling, following the Minimalist program of Chomsky 1992, examining Hindi as a case study and occasionally making comparisons with Japanese. The first major claim is that there are two kinds of operations that yield scrambling. One type, called Outer scrambling, is an Operator-Variable construction and is the result of movement. The other type, called Inner scrambling, is the result of several conspiring factors that allow permutation without movement. These factors are triggered by (i) the strength feature of functional heads (ii) Economy principles that hold at phonological form and (iii) Full Interpretation, which causes the Agr structure to be deleted after its agreement relations have been established. These factors cause TnsP to collapse into an N-ary branching structure containing the arguments of the verb. It is assumed that linear order is not fixed until Spellout. Therefore, the N-ary branching structure is free to yield permutations wi...

307 Abstract: This paper tries to clarify the concepts of inputs, output candidates, faithfulness constraints, and markedness constraints in Optimality-Theoretic syntax in the context of the multidimensional architecture in Lexical Functional Grammar, and to explore the consequences of the clarification of these concepts to the problem of ineffability. We propose that multidimensional markedness constraints expressing the correspondences between syntactic and semantic representations correctly derive at least some instances of ineffability without appealing to bi-directional optimization. 1