What is Kāraka? A Probe into Pāṇini's Analytical Procedure
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1987-05
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Ohio State University. Department of Linguistics
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Nominal and verbal stems are found related variously in syntactic constructions. These relationships may be distinguished as kāraka and non-kāraka. Nominal stems, 'things' indicated by which help 'actualization' of action denoted by verbal stems, are called kāraka. The rest are non-kāraka. In this paper we discuss what kāraka is; why there are only six varieties of it; why nominal stems are labelled as kāraka and what analytical procedure presumably Pāṇini follows in determining kāraka distinctions.
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Working Papers in Linguistics, no. 35 (1987), 94-103.