Etymological trends in the Sanskrit vocabulary.

The article examines how the etymological composition of the Sanskrit lexicon is influenced by time and whether this composition can be used to date Sanskrit texts automatically. For this purpose, statistical tests are applied to a corpus of lexically analyzed texts. Results reported in the article...

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Published in:	Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 105 - 119
Main Author:	Hellwig, Oliver
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Apr2010
Subjects:	Etymology Vocabulary Lexicon Sanskrit letters Historical linguistics Linguistics research
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