5. Sanskrit Imperatives

Sanskrit Segmentation

Development Imperatives

The objectives of the project are 1) to enhance the capability of civil society organizations in economic policy advocacy work, and 2) to pursue specific policy reform agenda based on the needs of the sector. In the last three years, in each of the sub-sector, the project is implemented through the MultiStakeholders’ Team (MST) which consists of a key NGO partner, a subject specialist (technica...

Conditionalized Imperatives

Before talking about conditionalized imperatives, I want to ensure a common understanding of ‘imperative’, namely as a clause type in the sense of Sadock and Zwicky (1985). That means that for a given language L , imperative will be taken to denote one of L ’s form types at sentence level, namely the one tokens of which are prototypically used for REQUESTs or COMMANDs. As such they are parallel...

The Death of Sanskrit*

In the age of Hindu identity politics (Hindutva) inaugurated in the 1990s by the ascendancy of the Indian People’s Party (Bharatiya Janata Party) and its ideological auxiliary, the World Hindu Council (Vishwa Hindu Parishad), Indian cultural and religious nationalism has been promulgating ever more distorted images of India’s past. Few things are as central to this revisionism as Sanskrit, the ...

Universal Dependencies for Sanskrit

We present the first steps towards a treebank of Sanskrit within the Universal Dependencies framework. Our dataset is tiny at the moment, consisting of less than 200 sentences—a result of a summer internship project. Nevertheless, this seems to be, to the best of our knowledge, the first publicly available piece of syntactically annotated Sanskrit text. We also present a parsing experiment, wit...