Modern Linguistics in Ancient India
Modern Linguistics in Ancient India
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USDThe ancient Indian linguistic tradition has been influential in the development of modern linguistics, yet is not well known among modern Western linguists. This unique book addresses this gap by providing an accessible introduction to the Indian linguistic tradition, covering its most important achievements and ideas, and assessing its impact on Western linguistics. It shows how ancient Indian methods of linguistic analysis can be applied to a number of topical issues across the disciplines of modern linguistics–spanning phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and computational linguistics. Exploring the parallels, differences, and connections in how both traditions treat major issues in linguistic science, it sheds new light on a number of topical issues in linguistic theory. Synthesizing existing major work on both sides, it makes Indian linguistics accessible to Western linguists for the first time, as well as making ideas from mainstream linguistics more accessible to students and scholars of Indian grammar.
- Introduces the Indian linguistic tradition to linguists in an accessible and interesting way
- Includes alternative perspectives on current issues in linguistic theory based on ideas from the Indian linguistic tradition
- Provides a clear and detailed explanation of the influence of Indian linguistic thought on the development of Western linguistics
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March 2024Adobe eBook Reader
9781009364515
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Glossary
- Texts and Authors
- The Sanskrit Transcription System
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Astadhyayı at Work
- 3. Rule Interaction
- 4. Morphological Systems
- 5. Syntax: Argument Structure
- 6. Formal Language Theory and Computational Power
- 7. Semantics and Pragmatics
- 8. Phonology: Phonemes and Writing Systems
- 9. Conclusion
- References
- Subject Index
- Author Index
- Index Locorum
- Word Index.
