Sandhi : The Theoretical, Phonetic, and Historical Bases of Word-junction in Sanskrit

On typographical Conventions see pp.22, 23f. (and notes 35f. ), 24 f., 33f. 1 cf. M. Joos, Readings in linguistics, 216. 2 Where it is not necessary to distinguish between the Vedic and classical languages, "Sanskrit" is used as a cover-term for both. ## 3 Using '"voice" in a broad sense to include its concomitant features; in fact for most English speakers the z in such cases is voiceless but lax. 1 "Relevant" is the sense of having the phonetic characteristics (e.g., a particular final vowel or consonant) winch are liable to the alternation in question. 7 As already expressly noted by RP i.61, VP i.153; cf. PAI, 65. 8 For a concise and systematic statement of the differences see A. A. Macdoncll, Veilic Grammar, 73-6; and for a fuller treatment Wackernagel, Il.i, § § 55-7. " The exceptions apply more to derivational than to inflexional suffixes: cf. Wackernagel, III. § 3. 23 Thus in internal sandhi the / set up for certain verbal roots by the Indian grammarians (cf. Whitney, § 242), which agrees with our reconstructions of Indo-European; on the method in Panini see particularly H. E. Buiskool, The Tripadi, 12ff. 11 In the case of English "four", for example, the alternant fo:r would be taken as basic. " "A problem in phonological alternation", Lg., XV, Iff. ("We give T." (a Uto-Aztecan language of California)... "as a striking illustration of what may be accomplished by recognizing the nonpatent in synchronic phonology... The value of the theory is not merely that it is accurate, but that it provides an overlying general pattern (regular principles) to phenomena which otherwise could only be presented as a series of distinct, partial, limited patterns (rules and irregularities)"). ## 53 "Junction" is used throughout simply in the sense of the juxtaposition of basic forms, "sandhi" being reserved for the occurrence of actual alternants (cf. above). 37 On Panini see especially Buiskool, op. cit. 38 "Menomini morphophonemics", TCLP, VIII 105ff. ( § 4). ## 39 In accordance with our distinction of conceptual levels we should prefer "derivation" to "deviation". 40 See e.g. R. Jakobson & M. Halle, Fundamentals of Language. 41 Though the term has been used in a rather different sense by D. Jones (Outline, ch. xxvi). ' Cf. K. C. Chatterji, Technical terms and technique of Sanskrit grammar, I, 254ff" 7 Cf. P. i.1.66 ("tasminn iti nirdiste purvasya"). ' As e.g. Whitney on TP xiv. 15. \* P. i. 1. 67 ("tasmad ity uttarasya"). 10 P. i.1.49 ("sasthi sthaneyoga").

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