Podcast episode 53: Paul Kiparsky on Pāṇini

In this interview, Paul Kiparsky introduces us to the ancient Indian grammarian Pāṇini and the philosophical significance of his grammatical description of Sanskrit.

Panini stamp India 2004

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Feature image: Pāṇini stamp, India (2004). Wikimedia Commons

References for Episode 53

Bloomfield, Leonard. Tagalog Texts with Grammatical Analysis, 1917. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50797

Bloomfield, Leonard. The Menominee Language, Yale University Press, 1962.

Kiparsky, Paul. Panini as a Variationist, MIT Press, 1979.

Kiparsky, Paul. “On the architecture of Pāṇini’s grammar.” International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.

Kiparsky, Paul.  Panini. In Elan Dresher and Harry v.d. Hulst (eds.), Handbook of the History of Phonology. Oxford University Press, 2022.

Ostler, Nicholas. Case-linking : a theory of case and verb diathesis applied to classical Sanskrit. MIT Dissertation. 1979.

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3 comments on “Podcast episode 53: Paul Kiparsky on Pāṇini
  1. lilillillil's avatar lilillillil says:

    What linguist does Kiparsky mention at 8:48? I need to know!

  2. Penny's avatar Penny says:

    Very interesting, thank you.

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