Abstract In this paper we introduce an extended version of the Vedic Treebank ( vtb , Hellwig et al. 2020) which comes along with revisited and annotation guidelines. order to assess quality our annotations as well usability limits guidelines performed inter-annotator agreement test. The results show that between annotators is hampered by various factors, most prominently insufficient understan...

This paper studies Naiṣadha in Our Language (Bhāṣānaiṣadhacampu), a 16th-century Maṇipravāḷam retelling of the Nala and Damayantī tale from Kerala. It focuses on two main aspects this text, both illustrated by different expressive modes: one ‘high,’ pulling towards polished, dense literature Sanskrit style, other ‘low,’ performative, local, colloquial. The first is exemplified reading several v...

In 1970, Jayakanthan authored the novel ‘Sila Nerangalil Sila Manithargal’, which won Sahitya Academy Award for year 1972. He was born in 1934 an agricultural family Manjakuppam, Cuddalore, Tennarkadu district. has made a special place himself world of literature. Every novelist creates work his own style. Good diction should carry reader to end without boring them. The idiom that takes readers...

Natural language can be easily understood by everyone irrespective of their differences in age or region or qualification. The existence of a conceptual base that underlies all natural languages is an accepted claim as pointed out by Schank in his Conceptual Dependency (CD) theory. Inspired by the CD theory and theories in Indian grammatical tradition, we propose a new set of meaning primitives...