Although Tamil has an indigenous tradition of «grammatical » description — in an extended sense of «grammatical » which encompasses poetics and metrics, along with phonetics, morphology and syntax— which goes back to the first half of the first millenium AD, it was described once again from the 16th century onwards from a new angle (which included an interest for ordinary language) by Christian missionaries who brought with them a Latin model of grammatical description, which they tried to apply, by creative extension. I shall therefore refer to the corpus of their productions as the Grammatici Tamulici, although the earliest among them make use of Portuguese as a metalanguage for the description of Tamil. Not being in the situation of some...
"TAMIL", which its present users like to describe as simultaneously "living AND classical", is the c...
This contribution,1 based on an examination of several Tamil dictionaries and Tamil grammars, compos...
Tamil grammar tradition is unique. The Tamil language is understood to have a very old grammatical t...
Although Tamil has an indigenous tradition of «grammatical » description — in an extended sense of «...
Although Tamil has an indigenous tradition of «grammatical» description — in an extended sense of «g...
Tamil grammar governs morphology, syntax, and semantics on the one hand and the proper use of nouns,...
This paper aims at following up the development of the basic designation of the language called Tami...
Missionaries, who reached different parts of the globe starting from the 16th century onward, engage...
The study by Daniel Jeyarai recovers a forgotten aspect of the Tamil cultural heritage within the on...
Grammatical and linguistic history, like Tamil literary history, has its own antiquity and continuit...
Accepté pour publication dans Pandanus [ISSN 1802-7997], parution prévue en octobre 2010Tree-related...
International audienceThe language of inscriptional Tamil is very intriguing despite its complexity ...
The first of the four essays is a comparison and analysis of three different missionary grammars of ...
The first Jesuit missions established in 1542 by François Xavier in the Southern tip of India operat...
Historical linguistics, among other things, aims at understanding the principles and factors that ca...
"TAMIL", which its present users like to describe as simultaneously "living AND classical", is the c...
This contribution,1 based on an examination of several Tamil dictionaries and Tamil grammars, compos...
Tamil grammar tradition is unique. The Tamil language is understood to have a very old grammatical t...
Although Tamil has an indigenous tradition of «grammatical » description — in an extended sense of «...
Although Tamil has an indigenous tradition of «grammatical» description — in an extended sense of «g...
Tamil grammar governs morphology, syntax, and semantics on the one hand and the proper use of nouns,...
This paper aims at following up the development of the basic designation of the language called Tami...
Missionaries, who reached different parts of the globe starting from the 16th century onward, engage...
The study by Daniel Jeyarai recovers a forgotten aspect of the Tamil cultural heritage within the on...
Grammatical and linguistic history, like Tamil literary history, has its own antiquity and continuit...
Accepté pour publication dans Pandanus [ISSN 1802-7997], parution prévue en octobre 2010Tree-related...
International audienceThe language of inscriptional Tamil is very intriguing despite its complexity ...
The first of the four essays is a comparison and analysis of three different missionary grammars of ...
The first Jesuit missions established in 1542 by François Xavier in the Southern tip of India operat...
Historical linguistics, among other things, aims at understanding the principles and factors that ca...
"TAMIL", which its present users like to describe as simultaneously "living AND classical", is the c...
This contribution,1 based on an examination of several Tamil dictionaries and Tamil grammars, compos...
Tamil grammar tradition is unique. The Tamil language is understood to have a very old grammatical t...