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Horizons of the Mind. A Tribute to Prakash Panangaden pp 229–249Cite as

Word Order Alternation in Sanskrit via Precyclicity in Pregroup Grammars

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We develop a pregroup grammar for a basic fragment of Sanskrit, similar to the fragment used by Lambek in his treatment of English in a number of papers. We make reference to recent work of the authors involving the characterization of cyclic rules in pregroup grammars to treat word order alternation (e. g. in English, Persian, Italian, and Latin) and analyse this phenomena in Sanskrit. Pregroups are introduced by Lambek; they are partially ordered compact closed categories. The latter have been invoked to analyze quantum protocols in the work of Abramsky and Coecke. Sanskrit was the ancient official language of India and remains one of its main religious and literary languages.

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  1. Dept. of Philosophy, Chieti University, Italy

    Claudia Casadio

  2. Queen Mary University of London, UK

    Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh

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Casadio, C., Sadrzadeh, M. (2014). Word Order Alternation in Sanskrit via Precyclicity in Pregroup Grammars. In: van Breugel, F., Kashefi, E., Palamidessi, C., Rutten, J. (eds) Horizons of the Mind. A Tribute to Prakash Panangaden. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8464. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06880-0_12

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