Graph theoretic interpretation of Bangla traditional grammar

The paper is an investigation into the graph theoretic interpretation of the Bangla traditional grammar to understand the way grammatical information is structurally encoded in language. The hierarchical and the linear structural principles of grammatical compositionality is discussed in terms of certain graph theoretic concepts like tree, subtree, inverse tree etc. Translating linguistic structure into the tree structure is not new. In fact, the Transformational-Generative grammar, Tree adjoining grammar etc. have shown quite successfully how syntacto-semantic principles can be talked about in terms of tree structures. The present work differs in certain respects from the assumptions of TG grammarians, primarily because of the type of grammar and language it is dealing with.