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Reassessing Rigvedic Strata

Hellwig, Oliver; Scarlata, Salvatore; Widmer, Paul (2021). Reassessing Rigvedic Strata. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 141(4):847-865.

Abstract

It is commonly assumed that linguistically the Rigveda is a heterogeneous collection of texts. Since the early days of Vedic scholarship, researchers have tried to correlate grammatical properties with individual parts of the Rigveda, aiming at identifying layers and strata. In this article we review stratifications proposed in previous literature and assess the support for these strata by performing statistical analyses with allomorphic linguistic features that have been claimed to bear signals of stratification. In addition, we run a cluster analysis exploring how the books are grouped given the same allomorphic linguistic data. Our results show that once we control for metrical positioning, prosodic structure, and content, the allomorph distributions do not lend significant support for any of the proposed stratifications. Moreover, the cluster analysis favors the assumption that book 10 occupies a special position, but overall differences across the ten books of the Rigveda are not substantial.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Department of Comparative Language Science
Special Collections > NCCR Evolving Language
Special Collections > Centers of Competence > Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution
Dewey Decimal Classification:490 Other languages
890 Other literatures
410 Linguistics
Language:English
Date:23 December 2021
Deposited On:27 Dec 2021 05:37
Last Modified:26 Oct 2024 01:40
Publisher:American Oriental Society
ISSN:0003-0279
OA Status:Green
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.5913/jaos.141.4.2021.ar032
Official URL:https://www.americanorientalsociety.org/publications/journal-of-the-american-oriental-society-jaos/
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