Vedic and Sanskrit Historical Linguistics
Vedic and Sanskrit Historical Linguistics

Author: Jared Klein

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 8120836324

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This volume contains 10 articles based on papers presented at the Linguistics sessions of the 13th World Sanskrit Conference (Edinburgh, July 2006) and shows the engagement of scholars with all aspects of Vedic Grammar, including phonology, inflectional and derivational morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicography, and stylistics. In many cases the articles constitute integral parts of long-term research projects of their authors that are ongoing even at this date of publication and therefore present the broad sweep of the field of Vedic linguistics as it is currently being practiced. The contributions include two on phonology (Kobayashi and Kummel), two on morphology (Garcia Ramon and Tucker), three on syntax (Bubenik, Hettrich, and Hock), one on the semantics of tense and aspect (Dahl), one on lexicography (Krisch), and one on stylistics (Klein). In several instances these papers fit integrally into the research agendas of their authors, representing parts of larger projects reflected in recent publications (Bubenik, Dahl, Garcia Ramon, Hettrich, Klein, Kobayashi) or deal with issues touched on repeatedly by their authors over a number of years (Hock). In one case (Krisch), the work announced has in the interim begun to appear and represent a broad reflection of research projects currently underway in Sanskrit Linguistics. That all but one of the papers focus exclusively on Vedic is simply a reflection of the reality that in Western countries the study of Sanskrit has frequently been treated as an entree to Indo-European linguistics, and it is especially the oldest texts that have been mined for whatever nuggets they can yield relative to our understanding of the proto-language. Already Published :- Vol. I : Scientific Literature in Sanskrit - Eds. S.R. Sarma & Gyula Wojtilla Vol. II : Battle, Bards and Brahmins - Ed. John Brockington

The Sanskrit Language
The Sanskrit Language

Author: Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13:

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This book has the rare distinction of being both an introductorybook and a new ground-breaking study. It is an introductorybook because the reader gets an accurate overview ofthe language, and it is also a ground-breaking study becauseFilliozat s approach harmonizes two different and complementarystands that often have been at war: the Western historicaland comparative approach and the indigenous pa!Çitatradition. Sanskrit is described here from these two points ofview: what the native speakers knew and felt about theirlanguage, and what the foreign scholars discovered in theirhistorical and comparative quest.

Sanskrit & Prakrit, Sociolinguistic Issues
Sanskrit & Prakrit, Sociolinguistic Issues

Author: Madhav Deshpande

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9788120811362

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This volume brings together eight contributions of Professor Madhav M. Deshpande relating to the historical sociolinguistics of sanskrit and Prakrit languages. The studies brought together here represent his continuing research in this field after his 1979 book: Sociolinguistic Attitudes in India: An Historical Reconstruction. The main thrust of these studies is to show that patterns of language, including grammatical theories are deeply influenced by political, religious, geographical, and other sociohistorical factors. This is true as much of ancient languages as it is for modern languages.

Sanskrit Grammar
Sanskrit Grammar

Author: William Dwight Whitney

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 8120806204

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This Sanskrit Grammar is on a somewhat different plan from those already in use. It presents the facts of the language primarily as they show themselves in use in literature and only secondarily as they are laid down by the native grammarians. It also includes in the presentation the forms and constructions of the older language as exhibited in the Vedas the Brahmanas the Epics and the Puranas. The author has cast all statements classifications, etc; into a form consistent with the teachings of linguistic science. With the practical needs of the students of the language in mind different sizes of type have been used to make the work very useful to the reader whose object is to acquire a knowledge of classical Sanskrit. Historical treatment of the facts of the language has also been made.

Pre-Pāṇinian Linguistic Studies
Pre-Pāṇinian Linguistic Studies

Author: D. D. Mahulkar

Publisher: Northern Book Centre

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9788185119885

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Presents Sanskrit language studies in a new setting-that of `socio-linguistics'. Illustrate how some of the missing links in traditional Sanskrit studies can be understood if the evolutionary aspect of language studies is connected with the study of socio-cultural history of the speech The new model of socio-historical linguistics is for the first time conceived and developed as a variational, dynamic and developmental model. Neatly planned and richly illustrated, this book breaks a new ground in modern linguistic studies showing how socio-linguistic studies can be enjoyed not only as sources of new hypotheses in historical studies but also as source of rich cultural contexts lost from material archaeological discoveries. Language, pleads the author, preserves a rich cultural archaeology of a community. The formulation of the scientific methodology of language studies from this point of view has to be the logical sine qua non of all historical linguistic studies which have been in a state of revival since 1965.

Ideology and Status of Sanskrit
Ideology and Status of Sanskrit

Author: Jan E. M. Houben

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13: 9789004106130

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The present volume contains studies of crucial periods and important areas in the history of the Sanskrit language, from the earliest, Vedic and pre-Vedic periods, through the period of "Greater India," up to the recent history of Sanskrit in India.

The Indo-Aryan Languages
The Indo-Aryan Languages

Author: Danesh Jain

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-07-26

Total Pages: 1039

ISBN-13: 1135797102

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The Indo-Aryan languages are spoken by at least 700 million people throughout India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldive Islands. They have a claim to great antiquity, with the earliest Vedic Sanskrit texts dating to the end of the second millennium B.C. With texts in Old Indo-Aryan, Middle Indo-Aryan and Modern Indo-Aryan, this language family supplies a historical documentation of language change over a longer period than any other subgroup of Indo-European. This volume is divided into two main sections dealing with general matters and individual languages. Each chapter on the individual language covers the phonology and grammar (morphology and syntax) of the language and its writing system, and gives the historical background and information concerning the geography of the language and the number of its speakers.

Sanskrit Grammar: Including Both The Classical Language, And The Older Dialects, Of Veda And Brahmana
Sanskrit Grammar: Including Both The Classical Language, And The Older Dialects, Of Veda And Brahmana

Author: William Dwight Whitney

Publisher:

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 578

ISBN-13: 9788121511209

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Description: This Sanskrit Grammar h planned on different model from those existing already. The objects in preparing this grammar were to make a presentation of the language as they show themselves in use in the literature and as they are laid down by the native grammarians. The grammar also includes the forms and constructions of the older languages as found in the Vedas and the Brahmanas. The author has also made use of other Vedic texts and various works of Brahmana period, both in printed and in manuscript form. The author has treated the language throughout as an accented one, omitting nothing of what is known respecting the nature of the Sanskrit accent, its changes in combination and inflection and the tone of the individual words. Thus the grammar is consistent with the teachings of linguistic science. He has also discarded a few of the long-used and familiar divisions and terms of Sanskrit grammar. But the care has been taken to facilitate the transition from the old to the new, and the changes, ft is hoped, will commend themselves to unqu alified acceptance. For the practical requirement of the learner of the language the author has attempted to use different sizes of type to make the work as usable by one where object is to acquire a knowledge of the classical Sanskrit. A historical treatment of the facts of language has been made within the limits of the language itself.