A configurational approach to Sanskrit bahuvrihi compounds

In the present book I unveil a constraint on the internal order of Sanskrit bahuvrīhi compounds and offer a configurational account for it. The fundamental ingredients of this account are: (i) the translation of the syntactic and semantic relations involved in Sanskrit bahuvrīhis into configurational terms; (ii) the interplay between movement and configurations (as in the theory of Dynamic Antisymmetry). By means of these two ingredients, I show that the ordering constraint on Sanskrit bahuvrīhis is a by-product of the filter on subextraction known as ‘subjacency condition’. More explicitly, the ill-formed internal orders of Sanskrit bahuvrīhis correspond to phrase markers where the filter on subextraction is violated.