The Indians

Ideas reflected in modern computational linguistics

Panini: (spoken tradition)[.ps]

• Formal system:
  • Formalism
  • Meaning → sound architecture
  • [.ps] [.tex] Rule ordering, Lepschy p 40, and Default - blocking, Lepschy p 39, Kiparsky p 8, p 43
  • Derivation
  • Bracketing [ ], Lepschy p 39, Kiparsky p12
  • Simplicity, economy
  • Axiomatic system? (pp 40 and p 65)
  • Generative grammar (derivation from abstract forms) TBL
    • p 11, Chepsky 33 ff, Itkonen p 21, Kiparsky p 3
• Grammatical component:
  • Semantics
    • theta roles (thematic roles)[.pdf], [.tex][by Karin Cavallin]
    • p 45, Kiparsky 3, 16
    • p 42 (semantic properties)
  • Morphology: derivational and inflectional, Kiparsky p 45
    • Two-level?/Finite state? Lepschy p 35, Kiparsky 31 ff
  • Phonology, Generative phonology: p 11, Kiparsky, p 49 [ Chosen by: Rebecca ]
  • Syntax, Kiparsky 15 ff (ellipsis)
  • Computational affixes (Lepschy p 35)
  • Compounds (Kiparsky p 46)

Nyaya:

•         Etymology and lexical semantics p 11 and p 31
•         Logic, p 8, p 85

Yaska:

• Etymology and semantics

Patanyali:

• "Speech is the grammarians authority for judgment" ('emipirism')

Before Panini:

•         Boundaries: features and rules (Lepschy p 28-30)

Not Panini either:

•        Distinction between phonology/phonetics (Lepschy p 28)

Mimamsakas: semantics och pragmatics

• (pragmatics, implicature, griciansk tolkning) Lepschy s 45: "One who desires heaven should have a rite performed" -- ("one who desires heaven should bring heaven about through a sacrificial rite")
• Ellipsis s 82

Agent s 42 pp (difference between Nyayas and Panini)

Various: Interest in dialects, Lepschy s 46

References to Itkonen unless otherwise stated.

Ideas that might be worth reviving

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