FWD: South Asian Grammatical Literature Wanted

[Tej Bhatia]

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Dear Ashok jii,

The following article might interest you.

Bhatia, Tej K. 2001. Grammatical traditions in contact: The case of India.
Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 61. Tokyo University of Foreign
Studies, pp. 303-331.

This article deals with the traditional and Western influence on
grammatical literature of South Asia.

Best,
Tej





>VYAKARAN: South Asian Languages and Linguistics Net
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>          John Peterson, University of Osnabrueck, Germany
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>Dear Ashok,
>
>        There is a Paninian grammar of Kashmiri called the
><kashmiirashabdaamrta>. I believe there's a Delhi Univ PhD dissertation on
>it that was written about twenty years ago.
>
>        All the best,
>
>                Peter
>
>On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, John Peterson wrote:
>
>> VYAKARAN: South Asian Languages and Linguistics Net
>> Editors:  Tej K. Bhatia, Syracuse University, New York
>>           John Peterson, University of Osnabrueck, Germany
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>> Professor Aklujkar  has asked me to forward this for him to the list. Please
>> don't respond to me but either to him personally or to the list.
>> John
>>
>> >
>> > Dear Colleagues,
>> >
>> > I need specific references to literature that discusses the *traditional,
>> > pre-Western-influence* grammatical or linguistic literature in South Asian
>> /
>> > Indic languages (books or articles on traditional grammars, dictionaries,
>> > prosody descriptions, etc.) I have this information for Sanskrit, Pali,
>> > Prakrits, Tamil, Marathi, and (to some extent, I hope) Hindi. In the case
>> of
>> > Marathi, the following Marathi book contains the relevant information (as
>> it
>> > does on British-period Marathi grammars):
>> >
>> > Arjunavadakara, Krsna Srinivasa. 1992. Marathi vyakaranaca itihasa.
>> Mumbai:
>> > Mumbai Visvavidyalaya, Marathi Vibhaga; Pune: Jnanamudra.
>> >
>> > In the case of Hindi, I hope that the following publication will be useful
>> > (I did not so far have time to actually see its copy in my university's
>> > library):
>> >
>> > Bhatia, Tej K. 1987. A History of the Hindi Grammatical Tradition:
>> > Hindi-Hindustani Grammar, Grammarians, History and Problems. Handbuch der
>> > Orientalistik. 2. Abteilung, Indien. Ergnzungsband 4. Leiden
>> [Netherlands];
>> > New York : E.J. Brill.
>> >
>> > Thus, my request primarily pertains to traditional grammatical/linguistic
>> > literature in the remaining major Indo-Aryan (Assamese, Bengali, Oriya,
>> > Punjabi, Gujarati, etc.) and Dravidian languages (Telugu, Malayalam,
>> > Kannada). For the latter, I can glean some references from S.
>> > Agesthialingom's 1973 book _A Bibliography of Dravidian Linguistics_.
>> > Especially, the proceedings of some seminars on grammars or grammatical
>> > theories in Malayalam etc. seem to have been published. However, if
>> someone
>> > can provide a more up-to-date list (with bibliographical particulars as in
>> > the case of Arjunavadakara and Bhatia above) or guide me to a more recent
>> > bibliography, I will be grateful.
>> >
>> > Ashok Aklujkar
>> > Professor
>> > Dept of Asian Studies
>> > University of British Columbia
>> > Vancouver, Canada
>>

Tej K. Bhatia
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Linguistics & Cognitive Sciences
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