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Briefly put, this is a discipline that, given a set of semantic considerations and various lists of "building blocks" (verbal roots, pronominal suffixes, etc.), prescribes how to form correct Sanskrit words through the application of derivative rules. Maria Piera Candotti and Tiziana Pontillo (pp. 61-82) deal with the morphological bearing of some speech-sounds used as metalinguistic markers. [...]they offer a further contribution to the interpretation of PÄnini's rule 1.1.56, which was the object of their scrutiny in earlier publications. Madhav M. Deshpande (pp. 101-9) shows the system-internal reasons for which PÄnini does not consider all nouns as derived from verbal roots, a representational option that is considered to be valid by some Sanskrit grammarians, as explicitly reported by Nirukta (the foundational text of the homonymous discipline).