Modern Linguistics in Ancient India

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-009-36450-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

The 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lowe, John J

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Glossary; Texts and Authors; The Sanskrit Transcription System; 1. Introduction; 2. The Astadhyayi 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.

Über Autor(innen)

Lowe, John J
John J. Lowe is Associate Professor of Sanskrit at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford. Notable publications include Participles in Rigvedic Sanskrit (Oxford University Press, 2015), Transitive Nouns and Adjectives (Oxford University Press, 2017), and The Oxford Reference Guide to Lexical Functional Grammar (with Dalrymple and Mycock, Oxford University Press, 2019).