Kahrs, Eivind (1998), Indian semantic analysis. The nirvacana tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Linguistic Traditions

• Nirukta/nirvacana
  Nirukta/Nirvacana is the native tradition of semantic derivation or etymology. It is traditionally regarded as one of the six ancillary Vedic disciplines (vedāṅga). The most im...

Linguistic Fields

• 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...