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.

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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.