- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
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- Dedication
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The Origins and the Evolution of Language
- The History of Writing as a History of Linguistics
- History of the Study of Gesture
- The History of Sign Language Linguistics
- Orthography and the Early History of Phonetics
- From IPA to Praat and Beyond
- Nineteenth-Century Study of Sound Change from Rask to Saussure
- Discoverers of the Phoneme
- A History of Sound Symbolism
- East Asian Linguistics
- Linguistics in India
- From Semitic to Afro-Asiatic
- From Plato to Priscian: Philosophy's Legacy to Grammar
- Pedagogical Grammars Before the Eighteenth Century
- Vernaculars and the Idea of a Standard Language
- Word-Based Morphology from Aristotle to Modern WP (Word and Paradigm Models)
- General or Universal Grammar from Plato to Chomsky
- American Descriptivism (‘Structuralism’)
- Noam Chomsky's Contribution to Linguistics: A Sketch
- European Linguistics since Saussure
- Functional and Cognitive Grammars
- Lexicography from Earliest Times to the Present
- The Logico-philosophical Tradition
- Lexical Semantics from Speculative Etymology to Structuralist Semantics
- Post-structuralist and Cognitive Approaches to Meaning
- A Brief Sketch of the Historic Development of Pragmatics
- Meaning in Texts and Contexts
- Comparative, Historical, and Typological Linguistics since the Eighteenth Century
- Language, Culture, and Society
- Language, the Mind, and the Brain
- Translation: the Intertranslatability of Languages; Translation and Language Teaching
- Computational Linguistics
- The History of Corpus Linguistics
- Philosophy of Linguistics
- References
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
A strong tradition of linguistic analysis developed in India associated with the composition and preservation of the ancient Vedic hymns in the first millennium BCE and continued uninterrupted to modern times. Fields of metrics, lexicography, phonetics, and grammar were recognized first. By the early fourth century BCE, Pāṇini composed a complete grammar of Sanskrit that generates utterances from basic elements under semantic and co-occurrence conditions. The grammar utilizes sophisticated techniques of reference, a formal meta-language, and abstract principles of rule precedence. The long tradition of grammatical commentary investigated subtleties of verbal cognition in discussion with well-developed philosophical disciplines of logic and ritual exegesis. Linguistic analysis of Sanskrit inspired similar analysis of middle Indic and early modern Indian languages.
Keywords: generative grammar, phonetic feature, meta-language, bracketing, Sanskrit
Peter M. Scharf specializes in the linguistic traditions of India, Vedic Sanskrit, and Indian philosophy, and has devoted considerable attention recently to Sanskrit computational linguistics and building a digital Sanskrit archive. After teaching Sanskrit for nineteen years in the Department of Classics at Brown University, he is currently laureate of a Chaire Internationale de Recherche Blaise Pascal in the Laboratoire d'Histoire des Théories Linguistiques, Université Paris Diderot, and Director of the Sanskrit Library.
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- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The Origins and the Evolution of Language
- The History of Writing as a History of Linguistics
- History of the Study of Gesture
- The History of Sign Language Linguistics
- Orthography and the Early History of Phonetics
- From IPA to Praat and Beyond
- Nineteenth-Century Study of Sound Change from Rask to Saussure
- Discoverers of the Phoneme
- A History of Sound Symbolism
- East Asian Linguistics
- Linguistics in India
- From Semitic to Afro-Asiatic
- From Plato to Priscian: Philosophy's Legacy to Grammar
- Pedagogical Grammars Before the Eighteenth Century
- Vernaculars and the Idea of a Standard Language
- Word-Based Morphology from Aristotle to Modern WP (Word and Paradigm Models)
- General or Universal Grammar from Plato to Chomsky
- American Descriptivism (‘Structuralism’)
- Noam Chomsky's Contribution to Linguistics: A Sketch
- European Linguistics since Saussure
- Functional and Cognitive Grammars
- Lexicography from Earliest Times to the Present
- The Logico-philosophical Tradition
- Lexical Semantics from Speculative Etymology to Structuralist Semantics
- Post-structuralist and Cognitive Approaches to Meaning
- A Brief Sketch of the Historic Development of Pragmatics
- Meaning in Texts and Contexts
- Comparative, Historical, and Typological Linguistics since the Eighteenth Century
- Language, Culture, and Society
- Language, the Mind, and the Brain
- Translation: the Intertranslatability of Languages; Translation and Language Teaching
- Computational Linguistics
- The History of Corpus Linguistics
- Philosophy of Linguistics
- References
- Index
