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Project information
Analytical Phonology of Sanskrit

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Project Identification
GP405/06/P179
Project Period
1/2006 - 12/2008
Investor / Pogramme / Project type
Czech Science Foundation
  • Postdoctoral projects
MU Faculty or unit
Faculty of Arts
Keywords
phonology, analysis, alternations, sanskrit

The concern of this project is to describe the phonological system of Sanskrit by using a new developed methodology. The new method is based on a formal algebraicized description of the signform. The principal basis is a description of the phoneme distribution and its variants in the speech chains, together with a description of all alternations between and on phonemes, both paradigmatic and syntagmatic. According to this method we suppose that alternations are the bones of the phonological system, oppositions between phonemes not based on alternations (however proportional) are the less important oppositions in the system. Our first aim is to develop the new method and our second aim is to test the method through the application on the rich developed Sanskrit phoneme-system. The main output will be a complete monograph. Parallel outputs will be different texts, which we intend to publish on the web pages of the Department of Linguistics, for my teaching courses of Sanskrit, the comparative grammar of Indo-Iranian languages, the Indo-European linguistics and the course of general phonology.

Publications

Total number of publications: 10

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