Paper

Multi-Input Strictly Local Functions for Templatic Morphology

Authors: 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). doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/scil.1188