[INDOLOGY] Syllables in Pāṇini

[Dominik Wujastyk]

As your colleague probably already knows, Leonard Bloomfield also had a go
at writing a grammar in a general Paninian style, in his 1939 article *Menomini
Morphophonemics.  *It's included in Hockett's anthology
<https://archive.org/details/leonardbloomfiel0000bloo/page/352/mode/2up>.

On Sun, 25 Jul 2021 at 17:31, McComas Taylor via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> A friend and colleague, Prof Nick Evans, is a leading authority on
> Indigenous Australian languages.  He has asked this question about
> syllables in Pāṇini. Can anyone advise him?
>
> "I'm wondering if ... you know whether Pāṇini figured out a way of
> incorporating rule-sensitive to number of syllables in his rule statements.
> Do you know how he did it, if he did?
> The reason I'm asking is that, as part of a special readings course for
> our doctoral students, we are spending a couple of weeks on aspects of that
> tradition, and for fun I've asked them to write some morphophonemic rules,
> in the style of the Aṣṭādhyāyī, for an Australian language, Lardil.  And to
> do that they will need to refer to the number of syllables (monosyllabic,
> disyllabic, or more than two). Being ignorant of Sanskrit I don't know
> whether syllable-sensitivity is ever relevant"
>
>  Thanks in advance,
>
> McComas
>
> <http://doi.org/10.22459/VP.2021>
> The Viṣṇu Purāṇa <http://doi.org/10.22459/VP.2021>
>
>                   WSC Website <http://www.wsc2021.com.au>
>
> *McComas Taylor, *Associate Professor, Reader in Sanskrit
> College of Asia and Pacific, Australian National University
>
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