Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary
- List of Abbreviations
- Texts and Authors
- The Sanskrit Transcription System
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Aṣṭādhyāyī at Work
- 3 Rule Interaction
- 4 Morphological Systems
- 5 Syntax: Argument Structure
- 6 Formal Language Theory and Computational Power
- 7 Semantics and Pragmatics: Compositionality and the Relation between Grammar and Meaning
- 8 Phonology: Phonemes and Writing Systems
- 9 Conclusion
- References
- Subject Index
- Author Index
- Index Locorum
- Word Index
1 - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2024
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary
- List of Abbreviations
- Texts and Authors
- The Sanskrit Transcription System
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Aṣṭādhyāyī at Work
- 3 Rule Interaction
- 4 Morphological Systems
- 5 Syntax: Argument Structure
- 6 Formal Language Theory and Computational Power
- 7 Semantics and Pragmatics: Compositionality and the Relation between Grammar and Meaning
- 8 Phonology: Phonemes and Writing Systems
- 9 Conclusion
- References
- Subject Index
- Author Index
- Index Locorum
- Word Index
Summary
This chapter introduces Pāṇini and the ancient Indian linguistic tradition more generally, provides an introduction to the interactions between ancient Indian linguistics and modern Western linguistics and the influence of the former on the latter, and provides a brief initial foray into detailed comparison of the two, by investigating the concept of the Saussurean 'sign' in modern linguistic thought and the concept of sphoṭa in ancient Indian thought.
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- Modern Linguistics in Ancient India , pp. 1 - 31Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024