Davide Mocci

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Mocci, Davide 2024 Chapter 10. The internal order of Sanskrit compounds: A dialogue between Pāṇini and generative grammar History of Linguistics 2021: Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS 15), Milan, 28 August – 1 September, Raynaud, Savina, Maria Paola Tenchini and Enrica Galazzi (eds.), pp. 145–158 | Chapter
In this study I show that the internal order of Sanskrit Noun-Noun endocentric compounds cannot be captured by means of the notion ‘head’, defined in semantic or morphological terms (§§1–2). Next, I outline the strategy devised by the Indian grammarian Pāṇini (4th century B.C.) to handle the… read more