Morpheme based theories of word structure encourage us to think of derived words (e.g. \innatable") as built by adding one complex of phonological, syntactic and semantic content (/{bl j /, Adjective, `able to be verbed') to another (/innejt/, Verb | +NP]], `inflate'). This model lacks generality in a number of ways, however. (a) Derivational relationships may not involve the simple addition of...

On a strictly phonological level, vowel harmony is perhaps the best known type of non-adjacent dependency. Vowel harmony restricts the co-occurrence of vowels, regardless of the number of intervening consonants, according to agreement of specific feature or features within a word, a word and its affixes, or sometimes even across word boundaries (van der Hulst & van der Weijer 1995). Mongolian, ...

Huave exhibits "mobile affixation", whereby the placement of individual affixes varies depending on phonological properties affix and stem. Kim (2008, 2010) analyzed these facts within a cyclic cophonology approach through interaction between alignment constraints (McCarthy & Prince, 1993) *CC DEP. Using same core components, this paper develops an alternative, fully parallel analysis.In ap...

We show that in the context of orthogonal term rewriting systems, derivational complexity is an invariant cost model, both in innermost and in outermost reduction. This has some interesting consequences for (asymptotic) complexity analysis, since many existing methodologies only guarantee bounded derivational complexity.