Free word-order syntax: The challenge from Vedic Sanskrit to contemporary formal syntactic theory

Vedic Sanskrit, the early Indo-European language spoken by the Aryan invaders of India in the 2nd millenium B.C.E., is a language showing little if any evidence for levels of syntactic organization between that of lexical items and that of maximal projections of those items. But the large corpus of Vedic literature does show evidence that Vedic grammar routinely generated NPs, PPs, and VPs into which words were organized.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Linguistics

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Schaufele, Steven William

Contributors dc:contributor

• Hock, Hans Henrich

• Language, Ancient
• Language, Linguistics

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1991 Schaufele, Steven William

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9124482
(UMI)AAI9124482

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/22510