Multi-Input Strictly Local Functions for Templatic Morphology
- Hossep Dolatian (Stony Brook University)
- Jonathan Rawski (Stony Brook University)
Abstract
This paper presents an automata-theoretic characterization of templatic morphology. We generalize the Input Strictly Local class of functions, which characterize a majority of concatenative morphology, to consider multiple lexical inputs. We show that strictly local asynchronous multi-tape transducers successfully capture this typology of nonconcatenative template filling. This characterization and restriction uniquely opens up representational issues in morphological computation
Keywords: subregular, morphology, template, transducer, mathematical linguistics
How to Cite:
Dolatian, H. & Rawski, J., (2020) “Multi-Input Strictly Local Functions for Templatic Morphology”, Society for Computation in Linguistics 3(1), 282-296. doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/scil.1188
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