Multi-Input Strictly Local Functions for Templatic Morphology
Hossep Dolatian, Jonathan Rawski · ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst) · 2020
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