Linguistics from India: new ideas for modern linguistics from ancient India

Projektinformationen

LINGUINDIC

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 851990

DOI

10.3030/851990

Projekt abgeschlossen

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 18 September 2019

Startdatum 1 September 2020

Enddatum 30 April 2026

Finanziert unter

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Gesamtkosten

€ 1 499 440,00

EU-Beitrag

€ 1 499 440,00

Koordiniert durch

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
United Kingdom

Periodic Reporting for period 3 - LINGUINDIC (Linguistics from India: new ideas for modern linguistics from ancient India)

Berichtszeitraum: 2023-09-01 bis 2025-02-28

Zusammenfassung vom Kontext und den Gesamtzielen des Projekts

The LINGUINDIC project aims to uncover lost insights and analyses from the ancient Indian linguistic tradition, to compare and interface these with current work in modern linguistic theory, and thereby to develop new analyses and theoretical approaches within modern linguistics. The ancient Indian linguistic tradition was highly sophisticated and has influenced the development of modern linguistic theory in particular ways, but a wealth of linguistic literature, particularly from the later period, remains almost entirely uninvestigated from a linguistic perspective.

Arbeit, die ab Beginn des Projekts bis zum Ende des durch den Bericht erfassten Berichtszeitraums geleistet wurde, und die wichtigsten bis dahin erzielten Ergebnisse

We have read widely in the relevant literature, and have identified a number of texts and portions of texts which we have subjected to detailed investigation and analysis. We have particularly focused on the linguistic phenomena of negation, argument structure, case marking and compounding. We have written or are in the process of writing a number of articles on these topics, and on new editions of some of the texts we have been working with.

Fortschritte, die über den aktuellen Stand der Technik hinausgehen und voraussichtliche potenzielle Auswirkungen (einschließlich der bis dato erzielten sozioökonomischen Auswirkungen und weiter gefassten gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen des Projekts)

We have already made significant advances in the linguistic understanding and analysis of the ideas proposed in the later Indian grammatical tradition, particularly with reference to negation and argument structure. As the project progresses, our focus will shift more towards the interface with modern linguistic theory, and we expect to develop new ways of looking at these and other linguistic phenomena through this.

Folio 1 recto of the manuscript of the Śabdarahasya 'Secret of Speech', text on Sanskrit grammar