Vedic And Sanskrit Historical Linguistics

by Jared Klein/Elizabeth Tucker

ABOUT THE BOOK: This volume contains 10 articles based on papers presented at the Linguistics sessions of the 13th World Sanskrit Conference (Edinburgh, July 2006) and shows the engagement of scholars with all aspects of Vedic Grammar, including phonology, inflectional and derivational morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicography, and stylistics. In many cases the articles constitute integral parts of long-term research projects of their authors that are ongoing even at this date of publication and therefore present the broad sweep of the field of Vedic linguistics as it is currently being practised.

 

ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Jared Klein is distinguished research Professor of Linguistics, Classics, and Germanic and Slavic Languages and Director of the Program in Linguistics at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Numerous works on the language of the Rigveda, including The Particle u in the Rigveda (1978), towards a Discourse Grammer of the Rigveda, volume 1 Coordinate Conjunction (1985). Elizabeth Tucker  is Jill Hart Senior Research fellow in Indo-Iranian Philology at the University of Oxford, where she teaches classes in Vedic Sanskrit, Avestan and Old Persian, and linguistics. Following a book on an Ancient Greek Verb Class, The Creation of Morphological Regularity (1990).