Long-distance consonant agreement and subsequentiality

Long-distance vowel-consonant agreement in Harari1

This article addresses the problem of coronal palatalization in Harari (Ethiopian Semitic) triggered by the 2nd person singular feminine non-perfective subject suffix /-i/. The palatalization process is unusual in two respects: (a) palatalization operates at a distance over other vowels and consonants and (b) palatalization may optionally affect more than one coronal consonant in the same stem,...

The SCTD unites long-distance consonant dissimilation and consonant harmony

Long-Distance Agreement in Tsez: A Reappraisal

This paper is a critique of Agree-based accounts of long-distance agreement in Tsez. It highlights the inconsistencies inherent in such analyses and suggests instead an alternative where agreement is accomplished in ‘local’ configurations brought forth by the structure-building operation Merge and Move/Remerge. Contra what has been proposed before, the paper suggests that the agreement triggeri...

Conditional blocking of long-distance consonant dissimilation is attested

Hansson (2007) demonstrated that, given an OT grammar with the constraint schemas CORRC↔C and IDENT-CC-x, factorial typology calls for grammars where certain segments are opaque to long-distance consonant assimilation (LDCA). That is, it is possible to rank CORR-C↔C and IDENT-CC-x constraints such that, for example, in a language with place harmony for sibilants, a voiced [z] will be transparen...

Consonant-Tone Interaction as Agreement by Correspondence

This paper addresses the on-going debate over the distinction between Agreement by Correspondence (Hansson 2001; Rose and Walker 2004; a.o.) and the previously dominant theory of autosegmental feature spreading, focusing on a key conceptual difference between the two theories: the role of similarity as the basis of harmony patterns. It is argued that Agreement by Correspondence’s unique ability...