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Linguistic Paradox and Diglossia: the emergence of Sanskrit and Sanskritic language in Ancient India
Open Linguistics, 2018 “We know that Middle Indian (Middle Indo-Aryan) makes its appearance in epigraphy prior to Sanskrit: this is the great linguistic paradox of India.” In these words Louis Renou (1956: 84) referred to a problem in Sanskrit studies for which so far no ...
Houben Jan E.M.
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Using n-aksaras to model Sanskrit and Sanskrit-adjacent texts
CoRR, 2023 Perspectives of Digital Humanities in the Field of Buddhist Studies, Universit{\"a}t Hamburg; Numata Center for Buddhist Studies; Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship, Jan 2023, Hamburg ...
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Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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The rise of ergativity in Hindi: assessing the role of grammaticalization [PDF]
, 2009 This article investigates the origins and development of the ergative patterning in Hindi. Following traditional Indo-Aryan scholarship, two evolutions are discerned: (i) the reanalysis of a passive as an ergative construction, and (ii) the development ...
De Cuypere, Ludovic, Verbeke, Saartje
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The syntax of Sanskrit bahuvrīhis
, 2022 Lowe (2015b) provided an LFG-based analysis of Classical Sanskrit compounds, including bahuvrīhis of the adjective-noun type. In this paper we show that Lowe’s (2015b) analysis cannot account for the full range of bahuvrīhi types attested in Sanskrit; we improve and extend Lowe’s account to cover the major types of bahuvrīhi.
Davide Mocci, John J. Lowe
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Discovering novel natural resources for the biological synthesis of metal nanoparticles is one of the two key challenges facing by the field of nanoparticle synthesis.
Anthyalam Parambil Ajaykumar +8 more
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REGISTERS AND ACRONYMS IN BOARDING SCHOOL [PDF]
, 2014 The paper deals with the technical terms found in the boarding school, which is used some Sanskrit words to name some places and other things and also the acronyms that sound unusual for some people but it is daily used and understood in the military ...
Mukti, Laksananing
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F IS FOR FALCON: THE TRUE STORY OF THE ‘NOVELLE’
German Life and Letters, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article takes a closer look at the Boccaccio story upon which Paul Heyse based his famous ‘Falken‐Theorie’ of the ‘Novelle’. The essay then links Boccaccio to a general account of storytelling as an aid to survival amid the hostility of nature and human circumstances.
Michael Minden
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Nepali Women at Work: Menstruation in Informal and Formal Workplaces
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Women of specific castes in Nepal are socialized to adhere to a range of menstrual customs. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews, we examine the relevance of menstrual customs in informal and formal workplaces in Kathmandu, Nepal. We expand upon Acker's work on gendered institutions cross‐culturally, highlighting its global significance, and ...
Srijana Karki, Tamara L. Mix
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Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2020 Morphologically rich languages seem to benefit from joint processing of morphology and syntax, as compared to pipeline architectures. We propose a graph-based model for joint morphological parsing and dependency parsing in Sanskrit.
Amrith Krishna +4 more
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