Sanskrit Syntax

Sanskrit syntax is the publication of selected revised papers presented at the Seminar on Sanskrit syntax and discourse structures organized by the editor at the Université Paris Diderot, 13--15 June 2013. The program of the seminar is posted on the Sanskrit Library Website www.sanskritlibrary.org under Events. The theme of the seminar was the exposition of current theoretical knowledge concerning Sanskrit syntax and the application of state of the art methods of computational...
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Sanskrit syntax is the publication of selected revised papers presented at the Seminar on Sanskrit syntax and discourse structures organized by the editor at the Université Paris Diderot, 13--15 June 2013. The program of the seminar is posted on the Sanskrit Library Website www.sanskritlibrary.org under Events. The theme of the seminar was the exposition of current theoretical knowledge concerning Sanskrit syntax and the application of state of the art methods of computational linguistics to Sanskrit.The book includes twelve papers by seventeen contributors from divergent backgrounds in European and American linguistics, P¿¿inian grammar, and computer science that converge in dealing with contemporary issues in Sanskrit syntax. Hans Henrich Hock provides a general survey of research on Sanskrit syntax since the publication of the collection on Sanskrit syntax he edited in 1991. George Cardona contributes two papers to the volume, one on P¿¿inian derivation and interpretation and another on the syntax of extension rules. Scharf, Goyal, Ajotikar and Ajotikar's paper describes a computational implementation of P¿¿ini's rules concerning voice, preverb, and transitivity restrictions in Sanskrit verb use, while Aussant examines the presuppositions of European and Indian approaches to word classification generally.Several papers deal with the topic of word order and how free it is. Scharf's paper, "Interrogatives," shows that interrogatives locate in positions of focus and topic rather than moving from a position designated by a predetermined principle of word-ordering. Gillon examines various types of ellipsis and argument structure of lexemes. Amba Kulkarni, Shukla, Satuluri, and Shukl examine proximity constraints on sentences analyzed in dependency structures. Scharf, Ajotikar, Savardekar, and Goyal examine differences between prose and poetic syntax computationally. Melnad, Goyal, and Scharf describe software to identify metrical patterns. Finally, Katira and Malhar Kulkarni, examine syntactic violations in sentences identified as erroneous by Charudeva Shastri.The book includes a seventy-page bibliography on Sanskrit syntax updated by Hans Henrich Hock and revised by the editor, a detailed table of contents and indices to authors, titles, and s¿tras.