--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Try to figure out, how many different syntactic deep structure > hierarchies this hypothetical compound word, slightly imitating some > Classical Sanskrit writers, can represent: > > deep-green-salt-water-melon > For instance: deep(-green-salt-water-melon)?? > deep-green(-salt-water-melon), and so on... >
Hmm.... Green salt-water-melon that's deep? Salt-water-melon that's deep green? Watermelon that contains deep green salt? Melon that grows in deep green salt water? So, translating "correctly" a compound word of Shankara's that per Coulson can contain more than 20 components would seem next to impossible, IMO, unless one is intimately familiar with the subject matter. It just occurred to me that perhaps those Sanskrit writers that preferred hyooge compounds, were "afraid" of using more complex syntax. Let's consider YS III 9: vyutthaana-nirodha-saMskaarayor[genitive dual] abhibhava- praadurbhaavau[nominative dual(?), modifying "anvayaH", that's in nominative *singular*???] nirodha-kSaNa-cittaanvayo nirodha-pariNaamaH. In "[Abhinava-, not necessarily Aadi-]ShaMkara-style" (or perhaps more so in "Yaamunaacaarya-style") that might sound something like this: vyutthaana-nirodha-saMskaara-abhibhava-praadurbhaava- nirodha-kSaNa-cittaanvayo* nirodha-pariNaamaH. Every word, except "anvayaH*" and "pariNaamah", is in the stem form that tells nothing about its syntactic function in the sentence. (For instance "Tiger, tiger, burning bright in the forest of the night" might sound in "ShaMkara-style" like this: "night-forest-burn-bright-double-tiger".) Even in "Patañjali-style" that's tricky enough, but in "[Abhinava(?)-]ShaMkara-style" it might make people somewhat dizzy, or stuff. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
