Ambisyllabicity

Ambisyllabicity in the language of the Rigveda

Brett Kessler
Department of Linguistics
Stanford University
Stanford CA 94305-2150 USA
[email protected]
  • Introduction.
  • Background.
  • The reality of ambisyllabicity.
  • The representation of ambisyllabicity.
  • Prior proposals for Sanskrit syllabification.
  • Data from the Rigveda.
  • Cluster splitting.
  • Metre.
  • Sievers's Law.
  • Perfect union vowel.
  • Reduplicated aorist.
  • Reduplicated intensive.
  • Summary of the data for CS syllabification.
  • Onset maximization.
  • Word margins.
  • Word beginnings.
  • Word endings.
  • Sandhi.
  • Sandhi generalized.
  • Word-internal clusters.
  • Late metre.
  • Summary of the evidence for OM.
  • Synthesis.
  • Description.
  • Motivation.
  • Later developments.
  • Representation.
  • Conclusion.
  • References.
  • Postscript version of the paper
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