Gendering speakers in the Sattasaī

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Today’s prātaraśanaprayōgaḥ (that is, ‘breakfast experiment,’ a phrase that has apparently been trademarked by Mark Liberman at Language Log): how many verses in the Sattasaī, the famous anthology of Prakrit poetry, are put into the mouths of male speakers, and how many are put into the mouths of female speakers? Although some verses give us…

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More syntax parsing with annodoc

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I have been looking for a relatively easy way to create and visualize dependency parses for Sanskrit, and obviously the Annodoc setup (which uses the brat annotation system) is a great place to start. Annodoc is basically a Jekyll template that allows you to write parses as markdown files, using conventions like Universal Dependencies, which…

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