Bertil Tikkanen (4 results)

Condition: New. pp. x + 326, Abbreviations.

Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents Preface. 1. The development of proto Indo Iranian sc into Sanskrit/(c)ch/Masato Kobayashi. 2. Reflexivization in the Rig Veda (and beyond)/Hans Henrich Hock. 3. The Vedic medio passive aorists statives and their participles reconsidering the paradigm/Leonid Kulikov. 4. On the evolutionary changes in the old and middle Indo Aryan systems of case and adpositions/Vit Bubenik. 5. Notes on the instrumental case of the subject/agent vs. other cases in Buddhist Sanskrit/Boris Oguibenine. 6. Prakrit like developments in old Indo Aryan testing the Kolver principle/Erik Seldeslachts. 7. Iranian elements in Sanskrit/Hassan Rezai Baghbidi. 8. Further links between the Indo Iranian substratum and the BMAC language/Georges Jean Pinault. 9. Indo Aryan and Dravidian convergence gerunds and noun composition/Hartmut Scharfe. 10. The Sanskrit translation of the Avestan Haoma Liturgy in the light of recent research/John S. Sheldon. 11. A preliminary study of Gandhari lexicography/Andrew Glass. 12. Lexicon directed segmentation and tagging in Sanskrit/Gerard Huet. Index. The present volume contains twelve of the sixteen papers presented at the linguistics section of the 12 World Sanskrit Conference (Helsinki Finland 13 18 July 2003). The papers span a wide range of topics and time depth extending from common Indo Iranian all the way to Modern Indo Aryan. The problems and tasks addressed in these contributions pertain to the historical phonology of Sanskrit Vedic morphosyntax the evolutionary morphosyntax of Indo Aryan the Syntax of Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Old Indo Aryan etymologies Iranian Loanwords in Sanskrit ancient Central and South Asian language contacts the Sanskrit translation of the Avestan Haoma Liturgy Gandhari lexicography and the computer processing of Sanskrit. A trend which can be discerned in some of these papers as well as in present day Sanskrit studies in general is the ever increasing impact of modern linguistic theories on in particular phonology and syntax. Computational linguistics which has much to offer in terms of utility and challenges is a newcomer in the field. 326 pp.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 378 pp., bibliography, index.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 330 pp, illustrations, bibliography. Articles: Select Bibliography of Klaus Karttunen 1980-2010; Greg Bailey, "Him I Call a Brahmin": Further instances of intertextuality between the Mahabharata and some Pali texts; Hans Bakker, Origin and Spread of the Pasupata Movement: About Heracles, Lakulisa and symbols of masculinity; Johannes Bronkhorst, Archetypes and Bottlenecks: Reflections on the text history of the Mahabharata; Måns Broo, Drama in the Service of Krsna: Rupa Gosvamin's Nataka-Candrika; Rahul Peter Das, The Classical Ayurvedic Representation of Human Anatomy; Madhav M. Deshpande, Arsa versus Anarsa in Panini and Allied Literature; Harry Falk, Die Kurus und Ihre Jungen Frauen; Masato Fujii, The Recovery of the Body after Death. A prehistory of the devayana and pitryana; Jan Meulenbeld, Laksmana's Yogacandrika; Patrick Olivelle, War and Peace: Semantics of Sandhi and Vigraha in the Arthasastra; Asko Parpola, The Three Ways of Chanting in a Sacrificial Laud: Chapter two of Jaimini-Paryadhyaya (Jaiminiya-Srautasutra III) with Bhavatrata's commentary: Sanskrit text with an annotated English translation; Richard Salomon, The Macedonian Month Xandikos in Gandharan Inscriptions; Henri Schildt, Rare Medieval Kerala Murals at Kumbla, near Kasargorde; Bertil Tikkanen, Domaki Noun Inflection and Case Syntax; Outi Merisalo, In Horis Sanguinis: Physiology and Generation in the Pseudo-Galenic De Spermate; Petri Pohjanlehto, Nasal Reduction in Late Luwian; Jouna Pyysalo, Fourteen Indo-European Etymologies in Honour of Klaus Karttunen; Harry Halén, Henrik Grenman and Olga Sederholm - Two unlucky Finnish Orientalists from the town of Vasa; Tapani Harviainen, Syriac Poems Written by Finnish Scholars in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; Nadja Johansson, Abraham Ibn Ezra on "the Scholars of India" - A twelfth century Jewish view of Indian astrology; Kaj Öhnrberg, Georg August Wallin: An Orientalist between national and imperial orientalism; Yaroslov Vassilkov, From the History of Indian Studies in Russia: Gerasim Lebedev and the Freemasons.…