36.2347, Books: A Configurational Approach to Sanskrit bahuvrihi Compounds: Mocci (2025)

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Date: 04-Aug-2025
From: Davide Mocci [davide.mocci at unica.it]
Subject: A Configurational Approach to Sanskrit bahuvrihi Compounds: Mocci (2025)


Title: A Configurational Approach to Sanskrit bahuvrihi Compounds
Series Title: RGG Companion Series
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Davide Mocci
           https://lingbuzz.com/j/rgg/monographs/mocci/
Book URL: https://lingbuzz.com/j/rgg/monographs/mocci/

Author(s): Davide Mocci

ISBN:  978-2-9701950-0-9
Publisher: Lingbuzz Press
Rivista di Grammatica Generativa/ Research in Generative Grammar (RGG)
Monograph Series
Series Editors: Guglielmo Cinque and Luigi Rizzi
Editor-in-Chief of RGG: Michal Starke
The book is available only in digital format (.pdf), and is
open-access.

Abstract:

In the present book I unveil a constraint on the internal order of
Sanskrit bahuvrīhi compounds and offer a configurational account for
it. The fundamental ingredients of this account are: (i) the
translation of the syntactic and semantic relations involved in
Sanskrit bahuvrīhis into configurational terms; (ii) the interplay
between movement and configurations (as in the theory of Dynamic
Antisymmetry). By means of these two ingredients, I show that the
ordering constraint on Sanskrit bahuvrīhis is a by-product of the
filter on subextraction known as ‘subjacency condition’. More
explicitly, the ill-formed internal orders of Sanskrit bahuvrīhis
correspond to phrase markers where the filter on subextraction is
violated.

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Morphology
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Classical Sanskrit (cls)
                     Vedic Sanskrit (vsn)

Language Family(ies): Indo-Aryan
                      Indo-European

Written In: English (eng)



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