Locality in vowel harmony
By: Andrew Nevins.
Series: Linguistic inquiry monograph
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780262140973; 9780262513685
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Vowel harmony
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: 1. What's vowel harmony, how does it vary, and why study it?; title: 2. The search principle; title: 3. Contrastiveness, markedness and feature-based locality; title: 4. Defective intervention: When search comes back empty-handed; title: 5. Domain-limitations on search; title: 6. Minimalist computation of vowel harmony: implications; title: Bibliographical references; title: Index.