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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De Gruyter
2021
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| Summary: | 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 modern phonology. |
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