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Linguistic Notions

• Argument structure
  1. Introduction Argument structure concerns the processes and relations involved in the syntactic realization of the semantic dependents of a predicate. Crucial notions in many treatme...
• Articulatory Phonetics in Ancient India
  Phonetics is the branch of linguistics that studies the physical properties of speech sounds. Within phonetics there are three sub-branches: articulatory, which focuses on the anatomy and physic...
• Subjecthood
  1 Introduction The notion 'subject' is an ancient one in the Western linguistic tradition, going back to at least Aristotle. In modern Western linguistics, the notion of 'subject' rema...

Linguistic Fields

• Morphology
  Morphology is the study of word formation. The analysis of word formation, and the positing of generative rules to govern word formation, held a central role in the Indian tradition. At least in...
• Phonetics
  Phonetics is the study of linguistic sound in its physical aspects, articulatory and auditory/acoustic. Already by an early period, the phonetic analysis of Sanskrit had reached an advanced stag...