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      Relativized Locality: Phases and Tiers in Long-Distance Allomorphy in Armenian

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      Linguistic Inquiry
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          Linguistic processes tend to respect locality constraints. In this article, we analyze the distribution of conjugation classes in Armenian verbs. We analyze a type of tense allomorphy that applies across these classes. We show that on the surface, this allomorphy is long-distance. Specifically, it is sensitive to the interaction of multiple morphemes that are neither linearly nor structurally adjacent. However, we argue that this allomorphy respects “relativized adjacency” (Toosarvandani 2016) or tier-based locality (Aksënova, Graf, and Moradi 2016). While not surface-local, the interaction in Armenian verbs is local on a tier projected from morphological features. This formal property of tier-based locality is substantively manifested as phase-based locality in Armenian (cf. Marvin 2002). In addition to being well-studied computationally, tier-based locality allows us to capture superficially nonlocal morphological processes while respecting the crosslinguistic tendency of locality. We speculate that tier-based locality is a crosslinguistic tendency in long-distance allomorphy, while phase-based locality is not necessarily so.

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          Journal
          Linguistic Inquiry
          MIT Press
          0024-3892
          1530-9150
          June 23 2022
          June 23 2022
          : 1-41
          Article
          10.1162/ling_a_00456
          d64306ac-2452-4850-ab0c-304bdc0c04f7
          © 2022
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