Typological variation in the ergative morphology of Indo-Aryan languages

A Diachronic Approach for Schwa Deletion in Indo Aryan Languages

Schwa deletion is an important issue in grapheme-to-phoneme conversion for IndoAryan languages (IAL). In this paper, we describe a syllable minimization based algorithm for dealing with this that outperforms the existing methods in terms of efficiency and accuracy. The algorithm is motivated by the fact that deletion of schwa is a diachronic and sociolinguistic phenomenon that facilitates faste...

ABHIDHA: An extended WordNet for Indo-Aryan Languages

A lexical knowledge base is an important component of any intelligent information processing system. The WordNet developed at the Cognitive Systems Laboratories at Princeton has served as a lexical reference system for natural language processing activities. The Indian language based activities at our institute mainly in text-to-speech synthesis and natural language generation from iconic input...

Aspect shifts in Indo-Aryan

The grammaticalization literature notes the cross-linguistic robustness of a diachronic pattern involving the aspectual categories resultative, perfect, and perfective. Resultative aspect markers often develop into perfect markers, which then end up as perfect plus perfective markers. We introduce supporting data from the history of Old and Middle Indo-Aryan languages, whose instantiation of th...

Basic Intransitivity : a Typologically Relevant Feature of Indo-aryan Indo-aryan Linguistic

The paper deals with the status of intransitivity in the global economy of the language in Hindi/Urdu. While arguing for the basic character of intransitive basis (on morphonological and syntactic grounds), in the first section, I also show (second section) that the behaviour of reflexive pronouns and emphatics in Hindi/Urdu is typical of languages which display a single base for both uses (ref...

Historical Phonology of Old Indo - Aryan Consonants