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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Autor principal: Lowe, JJ
Outros Autores: Sharma, G
Formato: Book section
Idioma:English
Publicado em: De Gruyter 2021
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Resumo: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.