Indian Linguistics Studies: Festschrift in Honor of Gorge Cardona

This volume represents cutting-edge research in the field of Indian Linguistics and Culture. Eminent scholars of Indian Linguistics have offered insightful articles in honor of Professor George Cardona, who has been a luminary in the field of Indo-European, Indo-Aryan, and Paninian Studies for the past four decades. Besides Cardona’s bibliography, the volume contains twenty three papers. In the section of Sanskrit Grammatical Theory the book discusses certain aspects of Nagesa’s interpretation where he rejects the views of Bhattoji Diksita, investigates the nature of the sthanasambandha in the light of Paniniya’s remark, explains some argument on iko yan aci, discusses exegetics of Sanskrit grammar. In the section of Karaka Studies, the book discusses Bhartrihari’s rule for unexpressed Karakas, a reconsideration of a rule of Astadhyayi, and other aspects of Karakas. In the part of Historical Studies in Grammatical Tradition, the study discusses grammatical thoughts of Candragomina and Jayaditya, some questions related to Candra-vyakarana, semantics in the history of South Asian thought, and Avestan grammatical tradition. The study also discusses some important aspects of lexical studies, studies in culture, and modern Indian languages.