Cover Image

Locality in vowel harmony /

Show other versions (2)
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nevins, Andrew
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2010]
Series:Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 55.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Vowel harmony.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • What's vowel harmony, how does it vary, and why study it?
  • The search principle
  • Contrastiveness, markedness and feature-based locality
  • Defective intervention: when search comes back empty-handed
  • Domain-limitations on search
  • Minimalist computation of vowel harmony: implications.