@inproceedings{biagetti-etal-2023-hedging,
    title = "Hedging in diachrony: the case of {V}edic {S}anskrit iva",
    author = "Biagetti, Erica  and
      Hellwig, Oliver  and
      Sellmer, Sven",
    editor = {Dakota, Daniel  and
      Evang, Kilian  and
      K{\"u}bler, Sandra  and
      Levin, Lori},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023)",
    month = mar,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Washington, D.C.",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2023.tlt-1.3/",
    pages = "21--31",
    abstract = "The rhetoric strategy of hedging serves to attenuate speech acts and their semantic content, as in English {\textquoteleft}kind of' or {\textquoteleft}somehow'. While hedging has recently met with increasing interest in linguistic research, most studies deal with modern languages, preferably English, and take a synchronic approach. This paper complements this research by tracing the diachronic syntactic flexibilization of the Vedic Sanskrit particle iva from a marker of comparison ({\textquoteleft}like') to a full-fledged adaptor. We discuss the outcomes of a diachronic Bayesian framework applied to iva constructions in a Universal Dependencies treebank, and supplement these results with a qualitative discussion of relevant text passages."
}