The adoption of Bhartṛhari’s classification of the grammatical object in Cēṉāvaraiyar’s commentary on the Tolkāppiyam (original) (raw)

Bilingual discourse and cross-cultural fertilisation: Sanskrit and Tamil in medieval India, 2013

Abstract

In this article I will look at one episode in the long history of the interaction between the Sanskrit and Tamil grammatical traditions and draw from it some — largely tentative — conclusions in the hope that they may help to cast some light on larger processes at work. The episode in question is quite a clear-cut case of conceptual borrowing. It consists in the adoption of a semantic classification of the grammatical object, first formulated by the Sanskrit author Bhartṛhari (probably 5th ce..

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