NDLI: A Mathematical Analysis of Pānini’s Śivasūtras

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Author	Petersen, Wiebke
Copyright Year	2004
Abstract	In Pānini’s grammar of Sanskrit one finds the Śivasūtras, a table which defines the natural classes of phonological segments in Sanskrit by intervals. We present a formal argument which shows that, using his representation method, Pānini’s way of ordering the phonological segments to represent the natural classes is optimal. The argument is based on a strictly set-theoretical point of view depending only on the set of natural classes and does not explicitly take into account the phonological features of the segments, which are, however, implicitly given in the way a language clusters its phonological inventory. The key idea is to link the graph of the Hasse-diagram of the set of natural classes closed under intersection to Śivasūtra-style representations of the classes. Moreover, the argument is so general that it allows one to decide for each set of sets whether it can be represented with Pānini’s method. Actually, Pānini had to modify the set of natural classes to define it by the Śivasūtras (the segment h plays a special role). We show that this modification was necessary and, in fact, the best possible modification. We discuss how every set of classes can be modified in such a way that it can be defined in a Śivasūtra-style representation.$^{1}$
Starting Page	471
Ending Page	489
Page Count	19
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09258531
Journal	Journal of Logic, Language and Information
Volume Number	13
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15729583
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2004-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Pānini Śivasūtras representation of natural classes Logic Semantics Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Computer Science Linguistics and Language

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