Work in Optimality Theory on the constraint set, Con, has often raised the question of whether certain types of constraints have multiple specific versions or are single general constraints that effectively sum the violations of specific variants. Comparing and evaluating analyses that differ in this way requires knowing the effect of this kind of summing on the full typology, which itself depends on the relationship of summands in the full system. Such relationships can be difficult to ascertain from inspecting violation profiles alone. This paper uses Property Theory to analyse the systematic effects of summing constraints in two distinct kinds of relationships: (i) across distinct properties, and (ii) within a constraint class in a single property. The results show how these two types collapse the typology in different, yet predictable, ways. Property Analysis provides a key to identifying constraint relationships and so to delineating the effect of summing.

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在属性中和属性之间求和约束

在约束集上使用最优理论，骗局, 经常提出某些类型的约束是否具有多个特定版本或者是有效总结特定变体违规的单个通用约束的问题。比较和评估以这种方式不同的分析需要了解这种求和对完整类型学的影响，这本身取决于整个系统中的求和关系。仅通过检查违规配置文件可能难以确定此类关系。本文使用属性理论来分析两种不同关系中约束求和的系统影响：（i）跨不同属性，以及（ii）在单个属性中的约束类内。结果显示了这两种类型如何以不同但可预测的方式瓦解类型学。