Chomskyan linguistics in the Indic context
A research area for language, grammar, cognition, and Indic linguistic contexts, with an emphasis on careful theoretical work before publication claims are listed.
This note draws an analogy between Chomskyan generative grammar and Huffman coding, using Sanskrit's rule-governed structure as a case study of how a language can be both generatively rich and efficiently encodable.
This note argues that Sanskrit's grammatical regularity makes it behave like an "eigen"-language, one that is stable under the kinds of transformation and transmission that tend to erode less-regular languages over time.
This note uses a dialogue with ChatGPT to explore proposed historical and structural relationships between Central Asian language families and Vedic Sanskrit.
A selective overview and discussion of Michael Witzel's 1999 scholarship on the shared ancestry between the Munda languages and Old Indo-Aryan.
This note proposes a theoretical framework for treating pairs or groups of languages as coupled systems, where structural change in one language can propagate to influence another.
This note extends the notion of grammar beyond natural language, proposing a unifying grammatical structure underlying scientific reasoning and theory-building itself.
Linguistics is included as a research area for studying language, cognition, grammar, and Indic knowledge systems as part of REAL Institute's wider inquiry into information and meaning.