Aspects of Paninian Semantics
Book Specification
| Item Code: | IDE694 |
| Author: | Ed. By. C. Rajendran |
| Publisher: | Sahitya Akademi, Delhi |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 2002 |
| ISBN: | 812601413X |
| Pages: | 252 |
| Cover: | Hardcover |
| Other Details | 8.8" X 5.8" |
Book Description
This volume brings together the papers presented in the seminar on 'Panini and Modern Semantics' by eminent linguists, logicians and grammarian at a seminar organized by the Sahitya Akademi. The topics discussed at the seminar were of a wide range from karaka theory to the computer. Compatibility of Sanskrit and from sicio lingustics to structural grammar. Here the manifold conceptual domains of Paninian are being subjected to meaningful exploration. This collection opens up possibilities for a dialectical interaction between conventional and formal grammar and semantics.
A unique feature of the Indo-European languages is their capacity to build compounds and this tendency has developed into unusual proportions in later classical Sanskrit. The great Panini has exhaustively documented the contours of compound formation, which take into, account both syntactic and semantic issues. Some scholars demonstrate through their papers how the semantic predilection of Panini is manifest in his compound rules, as in the distribution of vocabulary into fields.
The present collection will serve as a useful guide book initiating aspiring reader into realms of Panini Semantics.
About the Author:
C. Rajendran (b. 1952), the editor of the present collection is currently Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Calicut. His main works are The Traditional Sanskrit Theatre of Kerala, A Study of Mahimabhatta's Vyaktiviveka. A Transcultural approach to Sanskrit Poetics and monograph of Mahimabhatta and Abhinavadarpana, apart from more than 150 research papers published in India and abroad. He received Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Literary Criticism for his work Pathavum Porulum and the G.N. Pillai Endowment award for his treatise Saundarya-sastram.
| Preface | 7 |
| Introduction | 9 |
| Panini and Sanskrit Grammar Dr. K.K.N. Kurup |
15 |
| Welcome speech Dr. K. Satchidanandan |
18 |
| Paniniyan Arthavijnanam (synopsis) Prof. K.P. Narayana Pisharoti |
23 |
| Socio-Semantic Dimension of Panini's Grammar Dr. C. Rajendran |
24 |
| Words and their Etymology - A Case of Semantics Dr. Biswanarayan Shastri |
30 |
| 'Intention' as a Semantic condition in Panini Dr. K.N. Neelakanthan Elayath |
36 |
| Semantics in Structural Linguistics Dr. A.P. Andrew Kutty |
44 |
| Metarules of Panini Dr. J.P. Dimri |
55 |
| Panini and Metaphor Dr. K. Kunjunni Raja |
61 |
| Semantic Problems in the Computation of Paninian Rules Veda Varidhi P. Ramanujan |
69 |
| Panini and Computer Dr. K. Maheswaran Nair |
82 |
| Objects, Relations and Karakas Dr. V.N. Jha |
89 |
| Logical Structure of Karaka Dr. V.R. Prabodhachandra Nayar |
96 |
| Nuances of Vivaksa as Discernible in the Karakas Dr. K.S. Kannan |
103 |
| Semantic Problems of the Genitive Case Dr. P. Narayanan Namboodiri |
107 |
| Theory of Gender and its Generation in Panini Dr. Kapil Kapoor and Dr. Santosh Kumar Shukla |
114 |
| Semantic Perspective on Stripratyayas Prof. D. Prahlada Char |
124 |
| Gender Description in Vyakarana Dr. Meera Chakravarthy |
132 |
| Semantic Problems of Number Dr. N.V.P. Unithiri |
139 |
| Grammatical Number and Numerals in Panini Dr. G. Gangadharan Nair |
149 |
| A Semantic Perspective on Primary Suffixes Dr. Meenambal Narayanan |
158 |
| A Semantic Perspective on Secondary Suffixes Prof. V. Venkataraja Sarma |
163 |
| Semantic Dimensions of Taddhita Affixes Dr. Avanindra Kumar |
188 |
| Semantic Predilections of Panini (with special References to Compounds) Dr. M.Srimannarayana Murti |
195 |
| Semantic Conditions of Compounds - Panini and Kaunda Bhatta Dr. Vanitha Ramaswamy |
210 |
| Panini on Reduplication Prof. K.V. Ramakrishnacharyalu |
218 |
| Lexical Perspectives in the Ganapatha Dr. Hukum Chand Patyal |
230 |
| Indeclinables - A Semantic Survey Dr. K. Vijayan |
235 |
| Semantic Problems in Vedic Grammar Dr. M. Sivakumara Swamy |
242 |
| Influence of Paninian Sanskrit on Modern Oriya Semantics Dr. Kshirod Chandra Dash |
247 |
