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Pāṇini

References

• Bauer, L (2006), Compound.
  Miscellaneous
• Böhtlingk, Otto (ed.) (1998), Pāṇini’s Grammatik. Herausgegeben, übersetzt, erläutert und mit verschiedenen Indices versehen. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.
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• Ghosh, Manomohan (ed.) (1938), Pāṇinīya Śikṣā or the Śikṣā Vedaṅga ascribed to Pāṇini (being the most ancient work on Indo-Aryan phonetics). Critically edited in all its five recensions with an introduction, translation and notes together with its two commentaries [Prakāśa and Pañjikā]. Calcutta: The University of Calcutta.
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• Ramanathsharma (2002, 2000, 2002, 1999, 2001, 2003), The Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini. Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal.
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Linguistic Notions

• Argument structure
  1. Introduction Argument structure concerns the processes and relations involved in the syntactic realization of the semantic dependents of a predicate. Crucial notions in many treatme...
• Compounding
  A compound can be defined in very basic terms as a word that is made up of two or more words. Compounds thus show properties of both morphological formation (the whole constitutes a word) and sy...
• Coordination
  The term coordination refers to the juxtaposition of two or more words or phrases under a single phrasal node, often linked by a conjunction such as and or or. Unlike...
• Ellipsis
  The term 'ellipsis' in grammatical theory most generally refers to linguistic material being omitted, deleted, or simply left unpronounced. The omitted material is needed for the full interpreta...
• Grammar
  1. The term 'grammar' As discussed by Aarts (2006: 113), the term grammar can be used in a variety of ways. In a broad sense, grammar can refer to syntax and morpholo...
• Objecthood
  1. Introduction Like the closely related notion of 'subject', the notion of 'object' is an ancient one in the Western linguistic tradition, and in modern Western linguistics 'object',...
• Passive
  1. Introduction The term 'passive' refers to an argument structure alternation or operation common in languages with nominative-accusative morphosyntactic alignment, and to verb forms...
• Periphrasis
  1. Introduction The term 'periphrasis' broadly refers to constructions in which a syntactic sequence of two (or more, at least in principle) words can be considered to represent the in...
• Relative clauses
  1. Introduction Research on relative clauses in modern Western linguistics includes both more descriptive/typological angles such as distinguishing the different semantic and syntactic...
• Subjecthood
  1 Introduction The notion 'subject' is an ancient one in the Western linguistic tradition, going back to at least Aristotle. In modern Western linguistics, the notion of 'subject' rema...
• Suppletion
  1. Introduction Although its original reference is to the diachronic process by which two previously unrelated words or word stems come to be associated, resulting in a new, mixed para...

Texts

• Aṣṭādhyāyī
  The Aṣṭādhyāyī is the foundational sūtra text of the Pāṇinian grammatical school, and also (one of) the most important text in the Sanskrit grammatical tradition (vyākaraṇa) and the Indian literary...
• Pāṇinīyaśikṣā
  The Pāṇinīyaśikṣā is a work on Sanskrit phonetics. It is in several versions, which include a versified form and a sūtra form. It is attributed to Pāṇini or Piṅgala. It is one of the most influenti...
• Vyākaraṇamahābhāṣya
  The Vyākaraṇamahābhāṣya (a.k.a. Mahābhāṣya, Bhāṣya) consists of Kātyāyāna's vārttikas (short sūtra-like statements commenting on Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī) and Patañjali's commentary on both Kātyāyāna's...

Authors

• Kātyāyana
  Kātyāyana is chronologically the second author in the Pāṇinian grammatical school whose work is extant. In the tradition, Kātyāyana is regarded as one of the Pāṇinian sage-triad (munitraya) enjoyin...
• Patañjali
  Patañjali is chronologically the third author in the Pāṇinian grammatical school whose work is extant. In the tradition, Patañjali is regarded as one of the Pāṇinian sage-triad (munitraya) enjoying...
• Piṅgala
  The Pāṇinīyaśikṣā is attributed to Pāṇini or Piṅgala.

Linguistic Traditions

• Prātiśākhya and śikṣā
  Śikṣā (literally ‘instruction’, particularly ‘instruction in reciting’) is the native tradition of phonetics, teaching proper articulation and pronunciation of Vedic texts. Traditionall...
• Pāṇinīya vyākaraṇa
  Pāṇinīya vyākaraṇa (Pāṇinian grammar) refers to the Sanskrit grammatical tradition including and based on Pāṇini's grammar the Aṣṭādhyāyī (c. 400 BC). The Aṣṭādhyāyī...

Linguistic Fields

• Morphology
  Morphology is the study of word formation. The analysis of word formation, and the positing of generative rules to govern word formation, held a central role in the Indian tradition. At least in...
• Phonology
  Phonology is the study of the (abstract) sound systems underlying the physical (articulatory and acoustic) aspects of speech. Phonology plays a central role in Pāṇini’s Aṣṭādhyāyī, which...
• Semantics
  Semantics is the study of the meaning of linguistic expressions, and more specifically the study of the literal meaning of linguistic expressions (in contrast with pragmatics, the study of the u...