Chapter 9. Constituent-order in Sanskrit Bahuvrīhi compounds
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Maria Piera Candotti
Abstract
Modern and ancient interpreters contrast karmadhārayas, made up of two co-referential constituents, i.e. a qualifier and a qualificand, with bahuvrīhis, in an attempt to understand “where” the “adjective” occurs. They concentrate on the fact that, unlike in karmadhārayas, in bahuvrīhis the qualifier unexpectedly occupies the right-hand slot. Pāṇini’s compounding rules are indeed targeted on singling out the non-head of the compounds which is attributed the first place by default, mirroring the natural order of the alternating syntagm. In particular cases some different principles govern their constituent-order: one of them, illustrated in Aṣṭādhyāyi 2.2.35, is based on the concept of viśeṣaṇa which shares several features with the modern notion of qualifier. The present inquiry aims at showing how in Pāṇini’s system the concept of upasarjana as the constituent whose syntax is frozen is kept separated from that of qualifier, with the consequent re-appraisal of his role within the history of linguistics.
Abstract
Modern and ancient interpreters contrast karmadhārayas, made up of two co-referential constituents, i.e. a qualifier and a qualificand, with bahuvrīhis, in an attempt to understand “where” the “adjective” occurs. They concentrate on the fact that, unlike in karmadhārayas, in bahuvrīhis the qualifier unexpectedly occupies the right-hand slot. Pāṇini’s compounding rules are indeed targeted on singling out the non-head of the compounds which is attributed the first place by default, mirroring the natural order of the alternating syntagm. In particular cases some different principles govern their constituent-order: one of them, illustrated in Aṣṭādhyāyi 2.2.35, is based on the concept of viśeṣaṇa which shares several features with the modern notion of qualifier. The present inquiry aims at showing how in Pāṇini’s system the concept of upasarjana as the constituent whose syntax is frozen is kept separated from that of qualifier, with the consequent re-appraisal of his role within the history of linguistics.
Chapters in this book
- 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language Policy 10. 2014 i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword & acknowledgments 1
- Editors’ introduction 3
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Part 1. General and particular issues in the history of linguistics
- Chapter 1. Can linguistics and historiography of linguistics profit from each other? 14
- Chapter 2. Type or descent? 31
- Chapter 3. Le futur antérieur des linguistes (fin 19 e – début 20 e siècle) 47
- Chapter 4. Ethics and language in (and around) Philipp Wegener 60
- Chapter 5. Walter Benjamin’s idea of language 77
- Chapter 6. Eléments pour une histoire de l’interprétation 88
- Chapter 7. “Computational linguistics” as the horizon of projection of early machine translation 102
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Part 2. Antiquity
- Chapter 8. Declension and description 116
- Chapter 9. Constituent-order in Sanskrit Bahuvrīhi compounds 129
- Chapter 10. The internal order of Sanskrit compounds 145
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Part 3. Sixteenth to twentieth century works
- Chapter 11. How far are the horizons of descriptive linguistics? 160
- Chapter 12. The relevance of B. Delbrück’s work on Indo-European syntax (a century after his death) 179
- Chapter 13. Three documents bearing on the foundation of the Linguistic Society of America in the age of scientific racism 198
- Chapter 14. Archival resources for the study of the historiography of American linguistics 211
- Chapter 15. Courses in general linguistics by Roman Jakobson at the École Libre des Hautes Études 220
- Chapter 16. Contribution de Agostino Gemelli (1878–1959) à l’analyse des variations phoniques du langage 238
- Chapter 17. The structuralist quest for general meanings 248
- 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language Policy 10. 2014 279
- 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language Policy 10. 2014 283
Chapters in this book
- 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language Policy 10. 2014 i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword & acknowledgments 1
- Editors’ introduction 3
-
Part 1. General and particular issues in the history of linguistics
- Chapter 1. Can linguistics and historiography of linguistics profit from each other? 14
- Chapter 2. Type or descent? 31
- Chapter 3. Le futur antérieur des linguistes (fin 19 e – début 20 e siècle) 47
- Chapter 4. Ethics and language in (and around) Philipp Wegener 60
- Chapter 5. Walter Benjamin’s idea of language 77
- Chapter 6. Eléments pour une histoire de l’interprétation 88
- Chapter 7. “Computational linguistics” as the horizon of projection of early machine translation 102
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Part 2. Antiquity
- Chapter 8. Declension and description 116
- Chapter 9. Constituent-order in Sanskrit Bahuvrīhi compounds 129
- Chapter 10. The internal order of Sanskrit compounds 145
-
Part 3. Sixteenth to twentieth century works
- Chapter 11. How far are the horizons of descriptive linguistics? 160
- Chapter 12. The relevance of B. Delbrück’s work on Indo-European syntax (a century after his death) 179
- Chapter 13. Three documents bearing on the foundation of the Linguistic Society of America in the age of scientific racism 198
- Chapter 14. Archival resources for the study of the historiography of American linguistics 211
- Chapter 15. Courses in general linguistics by Roman Jakobson at the École Libre des Hautes Études 220
- Chapter 16. Contribution de Agostino Gemelli (1878–1959) à l’analyse des variations phoniques du langage 238
- Chapter 17. The structuralist quest for general meanings 248
- 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language Policy 10. 2014 279
- 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language Policy 10. 2014 283
