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Books on: sanskrit linguistics

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Linguistics in America, 1769-1924: A Critical History

Book by Julie Tetel Andresen; Routledge, 1990

Subjects:

Linguistics--United States--History

Collections: Entire Library

Throughout this analytical book the idea is developed that theories of language do not transcend the language in which they are written, and ways are uncovered that are peculiar to the American-language linguistic tradition.
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Women, Language, and Linguistics: Three American Stories from the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Book by Julia S. Falk; Routledge, 1999

Subjects:

Linguistics--United States--History--20th Century, Women Linguists--United States--Biography

Collections: Entire Library

Rather than the standard American story of an increasingly triumphant march of scientific inquiry towards structural phonology, Women, Language and Linguistics reveals linguistics where its purpose was communication; the appeal of languages lay in their diversity; and the authority of language lay ...
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Rather than the standard American story of an increasingly triumphant march of scientific inquiry towards structural phonology, Women, Language and Linguistics reveals linguistics where its purpose was communication; the appeal of languages lay in their diversity; and the authority of language lay in its speakers and writers. Julia S Falk explores the vital part which women have played in preserving a linguistics based on the reality and experience of language; this book finally brings to light a neglected perspective for those working in linguistics and the history of linguistics.
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Linguistics Today

Book by Archibald A. Hill; Basic Books, 1969

Subjects:

Language And Languages, Linguistics

Collections: Entire Library

...Indo European, Sanskrit, Baltic and Slavic...languages and linguistics. EINAR HAUGEN...Though modern linguistics has been influenced...especially those of the Sanskrit grammarians, it...description of Classical Sanskrit developed in India...of descriptive linguistics in America in the...
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A Dictionary of Linguistics

Book by Mario A. Pei, Frank Gaynor; Philosophical Library, 1954

Subjects:

Linguistics--Dictionaries

Collections: Entire Library

...form of script used for writing ancient Sanskrit and several of the modern languages...cf. diachronic grammar, diachronic linguistics and diachronic phonetics . diachronic...Historical grammar q.v. . diachronic linguistics: The study of words, speech, languages...
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Key Concepts in Language and Linguistics

Book by R. L. Trask; Routledge, 1999

Subjects:

Linguistics--Dictionaries

Collections: Entire Library

Key Concepts in Language and Linguistics is a comprehensive A - Z guide to all the main terms and concepts used in the study of language and linguistics.Ideal for students, it contains over 200 entries, each providing:* a brief definition of the term followed by a more detailed description* the ...
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Key Concepts in Language and Linguistics is a comprehensive A - Z guide to all the main terms and concepts used in the study of language and linguistics.Ideal for students, it contains over 200 entries, each providing:* a brief definition of the term followed by a more detailed description* the origin of the concept* key associated individuals* a guide to further reading* extensive cross-referencing.Written by the author of the bestselling Language: the Basics , this is an essential reference guide for all students of language and linguistics.
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Journal Articles on: sanskrit linguistics

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On the Indo-European Origins of the Retroflexes in Sanskrit

Journal article by Eric P. Hamp; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 116, 1996

Subjects:

Indo-European languages--Analysis, Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)--Evaluation, Sanskrit language--Analysis

Collections: History, Entire Library

...from the Symposium on American Indian Linguistics, Univ. of California Publications in Linguistics, 10 (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1954...7 See W. S. Allen, "Retroflexion in Sanskrit," BSOAS 16 (1954). 8 See the reference...
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Fluidity of Early Grammatical Categories in Sanskrit

Journal article by Madhav M. Deshpande; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 122, 2002

Subjects:

Categorization (Linguistics)--History, Grammar, Comparative and general--History, Sanskrit language

Collections: History, Entire Library

Fluidity of early grammatical categories in Sanskrit. by Madhav M. Deshpande OUR RELIANCE ON THE GRAMMATICAL...Harvard Oriental Series, vol. 52. Cambridge, Mass.: Dept. of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard Univ., 1997. Taittiriya-Samhita...
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Sanskrit for Civil Servants 1806-1818

Journal article by Rosane Rocher; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 122, 2002

Subjects:

Sanskrit language

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Sanskrit, until East India College was closed in 1858. (1.) See Rosane Rocher, "Sanskrit: Discovery by Europeans," Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, ed. R. E. Asher et al. (Oxford: Pergamon, 1994), 7: 3651-54; rpt. as "The Discovery...
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How the Mole and Mongoose Got Their Names: Sanskrit Akhu- and Nakula-

Journal article by Joshua T. Katz; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 122, 2002

Subjects:

Indo-European languages, Moles (Animals)--Names, Mongooses--Names, Sanskrit language

Collections: History, Entire Library

...akhu- might indicate that the Sanskrit word for mole shows Middle...In Comparative Historical Linguistics: Indo-European and Finno-Ugric...1951. Der Rig-Veda aus dem Sanskrit ins Deutsche ubersetzi und...sup.wh. Journal of Celtic Linguistics 1: 101-18. Kuiper, F. B...
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Sanskrit and Evolution of Human Speech, Based on Sri Aurobindo's Linguistic Theory

Journal article by Anuradha Coudry; International Journal of Humanities and Peace, Vol. 22, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Sanskrit and Evolution of Human Speech, Based on Sri Aurobindo's Linguistic Theory (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...contribution in the evolving field of linguistics. Sri Aurobindo declared categorically...language ordinarily called Sanskrit. I base my conclusions on...contribution in the field of linguistics; to create an awareness about...to establish the study of Sanskrit as a key to help trace the...

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Magazine Articles on: sanskrit linguistics

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The End of Linguistics

Magazine article by Mark Halpern; American Scholar, Vol. 70, Winter 2001

Subjects:

Language awareness--Social aspects, Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Linguistic change--Analysis, Linguistics--Methods, Vocabulary--Usage

Collections: Entire Library

...century B.C. in the work of the Sanskrit grammarian Panini in ancient India. But linguistics in the modern sense--linguistics not as grammatical scholarship...relationships among Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit that led to the idea of what we...
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Farewell to Linguistics?

Magazine article; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 25, Summer 2001

Subjects:

Language and languages--Social aspects, Linguistics--Research

Collections: Entire Library

...the culprit is the failed science of linguistics. The modern discipline began with much...relationships among Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit led to the idea of an Indo-European...late 19th and early 20th centuries, linguistics seemed well on its way to becoming...
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The Man Who Loved Languages: A Scholar with the Ability and Audacity to Rebuild the Tower of Babel Died a Year Ago, but His Controversial Project Lives On

Magazine article by Richard B. Woodward; American Scholar, Vol. 75, Autumn 2006

Subjects:

Linguistics--Research, Linguists--Research, Starostin, Sergei--Research

Collections: Entire Library

...referencing the centuries-long history of linguistics. His facility in learning and speaking...Spanish, Italian, Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit. The number of languages he could understand...Human Genome Project for historical linguistics, EHL proposes to gather a core of the...
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Deciphering History: Andrew Robinson Looks at Some Linguistic Puzzles Still Facing Historians

Magazine article by Andrew Robinson; History Today, Vol. 52, August 2002

Subjects:

Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)--Research, Writing--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...language of the Indus civilisation. It could be related to Sanskrit, the language of northern India in classical times, which flourished...Dravidian languages are favoured by a large majority of scholars, Sanskrit by a handful of nationalistic Indian scholars, who wish to...
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Like, What Is the Meaning of "Like"?

Magazine article; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 131, December 2002

Subjects:

College faculty--Research, College teachers--Research, Oral communication--Research, Siegel, Muffy--Research, Teenagers, Temple University--Officials and employees, Youth--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...Is the Meaning of "Like"? Muffy Siegel, professor of linguistics, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa., has cracked a 20-year-old...Ancient Hittite (one of the languages of the Old Testament) and Sanskrit both made use of fillers, which are translated as "like."

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Newspaper Articles on: sanskrit linguistics

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Howard Imbrey, 81, Intelligence Officer

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 9, 2002

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Urdu and Hindi. He had a working knowledge of Singhalese, Sanskrit, Portuguese, Latin and Greek, among other languages. He...from the Horace Mann School for Boys in 1939. He majored in linguistics at the University of North Carolina, where his studies were...
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Raising Animation Level in 'Atlantis'

Newspaper article by Gary Arnold; The Washington Times, June 15, 2001

Subjects:

Walt Disney Co.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the first "Star Trek" was having a bit of trouble securing a linguistics expert to supply a few lines of Vulcan dialogue. Mr. Okrand...the rest of the population was passed on orally. The great Sanskrit grammar was composed as poetry and passed from generation...
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FAIRY TALE of NEW YORK; Bee Is for Boring ... Bee Movie Fails Due to Its Uninspiring Story

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), December 16, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Roth plays Dominic Matei, an elderly Romanian professor of linguistics whois struck by lightning one day in 1938 only to wake up...She wakes up, gets older at anaccelerated rate and talks Sanskrit, then ancient Egyptian and then Babylonian. Serial reincarnations...
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No Suite Life for Prez

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 25, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...expulsion, like Get out of here, " said Gideon Goldenberg, a linguistics professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. "Its pretty...also a Nubian tribe, the word for rose in Persian and sun in Sanskrit and a term for a form of alpaca wool. *Compiled by Robyn-Denise...

Encyclopedia Articles on: sanskrit linguistics

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Linguistics

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...scholar Sir William Jones suggested the possible affinity of Sanskrit and Persian with Greek and Latin, for the first time bringing...With Joness revelation the school of comparative historical linguistics began. Through the comparison of language structures, such...
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Panini

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...His Ashtadhyayi eight books (tr. 1891) is one of the earliest works of descriptive linguistics and is also the first individually authored treatise on Sanskrit. Each of its 3,995 rules governing roots and suffixes is introduced in a sutra...
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Indo-Iranian

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Indo-Aryan and Hindi (2d ed. 1960); A. M. Ghatage, Historical Linguistics and Indo-Aryan Languages (1962); J. Bloch, Indo-Aryan, from...Vedas to Modern Times (rev. ed., tr. 1965); T. Burrow, The Sanskrit Language (2d ed. 1965); J. A. Boyle, Grammar of Modern Persian...
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Grammar

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...with Paninis grammar of Sanskrit and in Greece with Platos...through comparative linguistics. Grammatical analysis...theories of structural linguistics and transformational-generative grammar (see linguistics ). Bibliography...
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Phonetics

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...him they are the same sound. Yet in some languages (as in Sanskrit) just the presence or absence of that puff in both words would...change through time is treated by comparative and historical linguistics . See grammar ; language ; writing . See K. Pike...

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