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    <abstract>The common wisdom about Sanskrit is that it is free word order language. This word order poses challenges such as handling non-projectivity in parsing. The earlier works on the word order of Sanskrit have shown that there are syntactic structures in Sanskrit which cannot be covered under even the non-planarity. In this paper, we study these structures further to investigate if they can fall under well-nestedness or not. A small manually tagged corpus of the verses of Śrīmad-Bhagavad-Gītā was considered for this study. It was noticed that there are as many well-nested trees as there are ill-nested ones. From the linguistic point of view, we could get a list of relations that are involved in the planarity violations. All these relations had one thing in common - that they have unilateral expectancy. It was this loose binding, as against the mutual expectancy with certain other relations, that allowed them to cross the phrasal boundaries.</abstract>
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Free Word Order in Sanskrit and Well-nestedness
%A Vikram, Sanal
%A Kulkarni, Amba
%Y Bhattacharyya, Pushpak
%Y Sharma, Dipti Misra
%Y Sangal, Rajeev
%S Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON)
%D 2020
%8 December
%I NLP Association of India (NLPAI)
%C Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna, India
%F vikram-kulkarni-2020-free
%X The common wisdom about Sanskrit is that it is free word order language. This word order poses challenges such as handling non-projectivity in parsing. The earlier works on the word order of Sanskrit have shown that there are syntactic structures in Sanskrit which cannot be covered under even the non-planarity. In this paper, we study these structures further to investigate if they can fall under well-nestedness or not. A small manually tagged corpus of the verses of Śrīmad-Bhagavad-Gītā was considered for this study. It was noticed that there are as many well-nested trees as there are ill-nested ones. From the linguistic point of view, we could get a list of relations that are involved in the planarity violations. All these relations had one thing in common - that they have unilateral expectancy. It was this loose binding, as against the mutual expectancy with certain other relations, that allowed them to cross the phrasal boundaries.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2020.icon-main.41
%P 308-316

Markdown (Informal)

[Free Word Order in Sanskrit and Well-nestedness](https://aclanthology.org/2020.icon-main.41) (Vikram & Kulkarni, ICON 2020)

• Free Word Order in Sanskrit and Well-nestedness (Vikram & Kulkarni, ICON 2020)

ACL

• Sanal Vikram and Amba Kulkarni. 2020. Free Word Order in Sanskrit and Well-nestedness. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), pages 308–316, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna, India. NLP Association of India (NLPAI).