@inproceedings{verbil-hunter-2026-omnivorous,
    title = "Omnivorous Agreement, like {U}yghur Backness Harmony, is a Challenge for Tier-Based Strict Locality",
    author = "Verbil, Allison  and
      Hunter, Tim",
    editor = "Voigt, Rob  and
      Warstadt, Alex  and
      Feldman, Naomi  and
      Linzen, Tal",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2026",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, CA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-workshops/2026.scil-main.13/",
    pages = "129--137",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-412-5",
    abstract = "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."
}