Omnivorous Agreement, like Uyghur Backness Harmony, is a Challenge for Tier-Based Strict Locality

Allison Verbil; Tim Hunter

Omnivorous Agreement, like Uyghur Backness Harmony, is a Challenge for Tier-Based Strict Locality

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A well-known exception to the characterization that phonological patterns belong to the subregular class of TSL dependencies is found in Uyghur backness harmony (Mayer and Major, 2018). At the same time, a recent line of work has argued that many long-distance syntactic phenomena are subsumed by the TSL class, revealing an interesting parallel between phonology and syntax. We show that a certain omnivorous syntactic agreement pattern, namely Mundari object agreement (Murugesan et al., 2025), poses the same challenge to TSL as Uyghur backness harmony.

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Cite (ACL):: Allison Verbil and Tim Hunter. 2026. Omnivorous Agreement, like Uyghur Backness Harmony, is a Challenge for Tier-Based Strict Locality. In Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2026, pages 129–137, San Diego, CA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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[Omnivorous Agreement, like Uyghur Backness Harmony, is a Challenge for Tier-Based Strict Locality](https://aclanthology.org/2026.scil-main.13/) (Verbil & Hunter, SCiL 2026)

Omnivorous Agreement, like Uyghur Backness Harmony, is a Challenge for Tier-Based Strict Locality (Verbil & Hunter, SCiL 2026)

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Allison Verbil and Tim Hunter. 2026. Omnivorous Agreement, like Uyghur Backness Harmony, is a Challenge for Tier-Based Strict Locality. In Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2026, pages 129–137, San Diego, CA. Association for Computational Linguistics.