Revisiting Pāṇini's generative power

In this paper I revisit recent claims that Pāṇini’s generative grammar has fully context-sensitive power. I show that in fact Pāṇini assumed acyclicity as a constraint on rule application, limiting the power of his superficially context-sensitive formalism in a way entirely parallel to much work in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lowe, JJ
Other Authors: Sharma, G
Format: Book section
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2021