Syntactic evidence for metrical structure in Rigvedic stanzas
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: We introduce a dataset that contains basic grammatical and syntactic information on each word of the Rigveda. Based on the syntactic information in this dataset, we provide basic descriptive statistics and illustrate its usefulness by exploring to what extent distich boundaries are represented in syntactic dependencies. The results suggest that in Rigvedic stanzas, syntactic boundaries are constrained by distich structure in a systematic way.
Source: Indo-European Linguistics
Authors: Salvatore Scarlata, Paul Widmer
Institution: University of Zurich
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4414918918