BhashaPub Date : 2023-12-13DOI: 10.30687/bhasha/2785-5953/2023/02/005
Davide Mocci
{"title":"Pāṇini and the Non-Head (upasarjana) of Attributive Endocentric Compounds","authors":"Davide Mocci","doi":"10.30687/bhasha/2785-5953/2023/02/005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30687/bhasha/2785-5953/2023/02/005","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims at contributing to our understanding of Pāṇini’s classification of compounds. In particular, this study investigates the notion upasarjana – roughly translatable as ‘non-head’ – in attributive endocentric (so-called karmadhāraya) compounds like nava-jvāra- ‘new suffering’, by addressing the following questions: do the units which Pāṇini designated as upasarjana in subordinate endocentric (so-called tatpuruṣa proper) compounds like aśva-śapha- ‘horse’s hoof’ share any feature with the units which he designated as upasarjana in karmadhārayas? More generally, what is the hallmark of the units designated as upasarjana? To answer these questions, we shall delve into several rules of Pāṇini’s grammar – the Aṣṭādhyāyī – which conceal such powerful grammatical tools as silent case endings and the operation of case-copying.","PeriodicalId":487267,"journal":{"name":"Bhasha","volume":"7 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139005006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BhashaPub Date : 2023-12-06DOI: 10.30687/bhasha/2785-5953/2023/02/004
Tanuja Ajotikar
{"title":"Do Counterexamples on the Kāraka Rules A. 1.4.33–36 in the Kāśikāvr̥tti Serve Any Purpose?","authors":"Tanuja Ajotikar","doi":"10.30687/bhasha/2785-5953/2023/02/004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30687/bhasha/2785-5953/2023/02/004","url":null,"abstract":"Ajotikar et al. (2016) claim that most of the counterexamples provided in the Kāśikāvr̥tti conform to the distinctive feature of a counterexample, namely, having all the conditions stated in the rule except one (ekāṅgavikalatā). Ajotikar (2021) discusses how a variant reading for a counterexample helps understand the relation between two operational rules. This article adds one more aspect to the importance of counterexamples. However, there are some cases where the purpose of the counterexample of a complex semantic condition is not clear. In this article, I study counterexamples provided on the sūtras, A. 1.4.33-36, in the kāraka section, on which Patañjali did not comment. These sūtras are chosen for discussion because the counterexamples available on these sūtras are first provided in the Kāśikāvr̥tti. When it comes to the issue of complex semantic conditions (priyamāṇa, jñīpsyamāna, īpsita or uttamarṇa) stated in A. 1.4.33-36, it is difficult to justify the usefulness of the available counterexamples. After carefully examining Bhatr̥hari’s views along with Helārāja’s explanation, it is evident that these counterexamples must have been included in order to fulfil the criteria of a vr̥tti. A vr̥tti typically includes an example, a counterexample and a supplementary word, which are necessary to complete the meaning of the rule. However, these counterexamples fail to justify the significance of the semantic conditions stated in the rule for which they are provided. Hence they do not serve any purpose.","PeriodicalId":487267,"journal":{"name":"Bhasha","volume":"11 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138984535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BhashaPub Date : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.30687/bhasha/2785-5953/2023/02/003
Surya Sanjay
{"title":"The Pre-Toda Verb A Reconstruction","authors":"Surya Sanjay","doi":"10.30687/bhasha/2785-5953/2023/02/003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30687/bhasha/2785-5953/2023/02/003","url":null,"abstract":"Toda is a Dravidian language that is well known for its aberrant phonology, namely due to ubiquitous vowel dropping, simplification of consonant clusters, and phonemic diversification. Although efforts have succeeded to some extent in mapping these phonemes to those of related languages, the origins and implications of Toda morphology have not yet been explored in detail. This work aims to reconstruct key aspects of the Pre-Toda verb in order to provide a dataset to be faithfully used in comparative Dravidian linguistics. Here, the formation of the secondary stem and the nonpast suffixes are demonstrated to show more affinity towards Old Kannada rather than Old Tamil. At the same time, the tenseless and dubitative conjugations, along with personal terminations, are found to retain archaic Dravidian suffixes.","PeriodicalId":487267,"journal":{"name":"Bhasha","volume":"25 14","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135868705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BhashaPub Date : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.30687/bhasha/2785-5953/2023/02/001
Valentina Ferrero
{"title":"Total Replacement of the Affix <i>Jas</i> by the Substitute <i>Śī</i> The <i>kaumudī</i>s Interpretation of A 1.1.55 <i>anekālśit sarvasya</i>","authors":"Valentina Ferrero","doi":"10.30687/bhasha/2785-5953/2023/02/001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30687/bhasha/2785-5953/2023/02/001","url":null,"abstract":"The present article focuses on the replacement of the whole affix Jas by the substitute Śī , when it occurs after a sarvanāman (pronominal stem) ending in the short vowel -a , as taught by Pāṇīni in A 7.1.17 jasaḥ śī . Most commentators attribute the evocation of A 1.1.55 anekālśit sarvasya to the fact that Śī is marked with Ś , while Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita, on the other hand, attributes this evocation to the anekāl nature of śī . This paper analyses the commentaries previous to the Siddhāntakaumudī (SK) to understand when śī started being understood as anekāl , concluding that Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita did not abandon the tradition since this appears to be a fresh reinterpretation of Kātyāyana’s vārttikas .","PeriodicalId":487267,"journal":{"name":"Bhasha","volume":"27 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135868695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BhashaPub Date : 2023-11-03DOI: 10.30687/bhasha/2785-5953/2023/02/002
Aimée Lahaussois
{"title":"(De)coding Hodgson’s Kiranti grammars and verbal paradigms","authors":"Aimée Lahaussois","doi":"10.30687/bhasha/2785-5953/2023/02/002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30687/bhasha/2785-5953/2023/02/002","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents the process, challenges and results of reconstructing hierarchised tables of contents for two grammar sketches written by B.H. Hodgson of the Vayu (1857) and Bahing (1858) languages. The process has involved making sense of the ontological systems used by Hodgson in organising his materials and analyses, and has been complicated by the dual factors of occasionally opaque terminological choices and of inconsistent physical presentation of the materials. The resulting tables of contents, presented in the appendix, make it possible to compare these sketches to others from the same time period and/or linguistic area.","PeriodicalId":487267,"journal":{"name":"Bhasha","volume":"38 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135868348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}