[INDOLOGY] Sandhi and grammar

[Andrew Ollett]

Dear Harry,

You might consult some of Paul Kiparsky's work on Lexical Phonology (e.g.,
“Some Consequences of Lexical Phonology” in *Phonology Yearbook *2 [1985]:
85–138) and more recently in Stratal Optimality Theory (e.g.,
https://web.stanford.edu/~kiparsky/Papers/reduplication.pdf, which has some
examples from Sanskrit, and
https://web.stanford.edu/~kiparsky/Papers/taipei.2014.pdf). Basically:
sandhi consists of a set of phonological constraints which apply at
multiple levels of the language, including the level of the stem, the word,
and the phrase.

Andrew

On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 9:58 PM rajam via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Kindly pardon my ignorance. Please let us know how you define “grammar.”
>
> Thanks and regards,
> rajam
>
>
> On Feb 22, 2024, at 7:02 AM, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
> Dear list members,
> I've wondered for a long time why sanskrit sandhi has any dependence on
> grammar and is not solely determined by preceding or following
> letters/sounds.
>
> For example why should internal sandhi have any differences from external
> sandhi. As MacDonell says, "The most notable divergence from external
> sandhi is the unchangeableness of the final consonans of verbal and nominal
> stems before terminations beginning with vowels, semivowels and nasal
>
> Or why should  *ī *,*ū* or *e* when dual terminations (and only when dual
> terminations) remain unchanged before vowels.
>
> In other words, in these cases why should grammar and not just adjacent
> sounds determine whether sandhi occurs.
> Thanks,
> Harry Spier
>
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