@inproceedings{vikram-kulkarni-2020-free,
    title = "Free Word Order in {S}anskrit and Well-nestedness",
    author = "Vikram, Sanal  and
      Kulkarni, Amba",
    editor = "Bhattacharyya, Pushpak  and
      Sharma, Dipti Misra  and
      Sangal, Rajeev",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON)",
    month = dec,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna, India",
    publisher = "NLP Association of India (NLPAI)",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2020.icon-main.41/",
    pages = "308--316",
    abstract = "The common wisdom about Sanskrit is that it is free word order language. This word order poses challenges such as handling non-projectivity in parsing. The earlier works on the word order of Sanskrit have shown that there are syntactic structures in Sanskrit which cannot be covered under even the non-planarity. In this paper, we study these structures further to investigate if they can fall under well-nestedness or not. A small manually tagged corpus of the verses of {\'S}r{\={i}}mad-Bhagavad-G{\={i}}t{\={a}} was considered for this study. It was noticed that there are as many well-nested trees as there are ill-nested ones. From the linguistic point of view, we could get a list of relations that are involved in the planarity violations. All these relations had one thing in common - that they have unilateral expectancy. It was this loose binding, as against the mutual expectancy with certain other relations, that allowed them to cross the phrasal boundaries."
}