... It's true that even the name, tolkAppiyar may be fiction, but Tamil grammatical tradition encoded in the great grammar is attributed to tolkAppiyar. I...
naga_ganesan@...
Jun 2, 2001 1:31 pm
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What is the current consensus on the date of this epic? Could list members guide me to any English/German literature on this topic? I read somewhere that there...
VAgarwalV@...
Jun 4, 2001 5:24 pm
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... This has been much disputed. More later. ... Buddhist Woman's Path to Enlightenment: Proceedings of a Workshop on the Tamil Narrative " Manimekalai" ,...
Jean-Luc CHEVILLARD
JLC@...
Jun 4, 2001 9:35 pm
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... vaNakkam umArANi! as hinted earlier, I would suggest starting with: Sanford B. STEEVER, 1988, The Serial Verb Formation in the Dravidian Languages, Delhi,...
Jean-Luc CHEVILLARD
JLC@...
Jun 4, 2001 10:16 pm
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... Regarding the occurrence of puLLi in inscriptions, I would like to have an appraisal on the following statements by Gift SIROMONEY[1990], "An outline of...
Jean-Luc CHEVILLARD
JLC@...
Jun 5, 2001 9:23 am
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... Manickem, V.Sp. 1972. A study of Tamil verbs. Annamalainagar: Annamalai University. Srinivasan, R. 1980. "Auxiliary Verbs in Sangam Literature". In: S....
Thomas Lehmann
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Jun 5, 2001 10:52 am
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LS> This symbol, I understand, was not attested LS> >before 5th cent. AD (Falk, Schrift in alten Indien). ... H. Falk is working from I. Mahadevan's papers...
naga_ganesan@...
Jun 5, 2001 1:38 pm
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... Thanks for the info. One of the factors in dating Tolkappiam has also been the evidence of the dot. Perhaps it's in need of revision. Let's hope Sri IM's...
lsrinivas@...
Jun 5, 2001 3:49 pm
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... Sure, Too many things on the plate! Yrs, ng...
naga_ganesan@...
Jun 5, 2001 3:59 pm
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When does 'mati' as moon (in tamil, tiGkaL) starts getting attested in tamil? Is it in late CT like Kalitokai? KannaDa still uses tiGkaLu. I have DED reprint...
naga_ganesan@...
Jun 6, 2001 1:44 pm
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... It seems to be attested in kuRuntokai 395 aravu nuGku matiyiRku ivaNOr pOla "like the people who are unable to end "the suffering of the moon "when it is...
Jean-Luc CHEVILLARD
JLC@...
Jun 6, 2001 5:00 pm
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Thanks, Dr. JLC for your time for checking the word 'mati' as moon in CT. Are there any words ending with -mati such as ERRumati 'export', iRakkumati 'import'...
naga_ganesan@...
Jun 6, 2001 6:42 pm
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... In the Book _Foreign Models in Tamil Grammar_ (1974, Dravidian Linguistics Association, Publication N°15, Trivandrum) Prof. T.P.Meenakshisundaram writes...
Jean-Luc CHEVILLARD
JLC@...
Jun 7, 2001 7:35 am
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Dear Dr. Jean-Luc CHEVILLARD, I went through your web page and found the following "Tamil, which belongs to the dravidian family of languages, is to-day spoken...
cjep_sa@...
Jun 7, 2001 11:44 pm
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... Well, yes, of course, I should have mentionned all these speakers (I know they exist although I have only been to Tamil Nad). It was not meant to be an...
Jean-Luc CHEVILLARD
JLC@...
Jun 8, 2001 8:13 am
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Searching in Malten-Lehmann volume on CT word indices, there are no words ending with -mati as in ERRumati, iRakkumati. These appear to be coined following...
naga_ganesan@...
Jun 8, 2001 7:25 pm
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... Dear tiru N. Ganesan, I do not really understand what you are trying to find. As far as ERRumati "export" is concerned, T.Lex. seems to connect it with T....
Jean-Luc CHEVILLARD
JLC@...
Jun 8, 2001 9:44 pm
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... Neither do I. It was too quick a jump. I feel that tiru. Ganesan is comparing apples and oranges. You are comparing two totally incongruent features of...
Periannan Chandraseka...
perichandra@...
Jun 9, 2001 1:57 am
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... Thanks for your informative reply. And, for your time. Considering that "mathana" = churning in Sanskrit, nir-mathana = peace, no-churning = tranquility. ...
naga_ganesan@...
Jun 9, 2001 1:11 pm
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... It is not clear what you mean. Just above two occurrences are found in puRam for mati occurring in the same role as in "collumati": kENmati and ezumati. ...
Periannan Chandraseka...
perichandra@...
Jun 10, 2001 8:58 am
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I've a suggestion: please send your query to Prof. A. Veluppillai. Formerly of Jaffna university, Uppsala university, ... Now at Virginia. He will be able to...
naga_ganesan@...
Jun 10, 2001 12:51 pm
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Dear Prof Lehmann, Thanks a lot for the reference. I will try to obtain a copy of the paper you mentioned. Uma Umarani Pappuswamy #745 LRDC 3939 O'Hara Street ...
Umarani Pappuswamy
uma_pappuswamy@...
Jun 11, 2001 4:45 pm
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Dear Jean-Luc, Thanks for your information. I did get a response from Prof Lehmann too. I understand that the CTamil group focusses more on Classical Tamil...
Umarani Pappuswamy
uma_pappuswamy@...
Jun 11, 2001 4:46 pm
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Zvelebil wrote a series of articles about Tamil dialects, one of them was Jaffna Tamil. Tho' not exact (have it somewhere), the foll. gives a clue. CTamilists...
naga_ganesan@...
Jun 11, 2001 6:33 pm
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... In Sri Lankan Tamil, the usage of medial deictic (u) is very common even today. itu ennuTaiya viiTu, "This is my house". utu uvanuTaiya viiTu, " There, at...
cjep_sa@...
Jun 11, 2001 11:28 pm
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uvan and uval, utu are usually found in the Yazh Tamizh dialects. I am not sure about Baticaloa and other regions but I can swear that in the environs of...
cjep_sa@...
Jun 11, 2001 11:35 pm
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... In agathiyar elist, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agathiyar/message/9950 I wrote to Dr. N. Kannan, Kiel, Germany: <<<< I agree, Dr. NK, that maNipravAla...
naga_ganesan@...
Jun 11, 2001 11:40 pm
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... If this was meant to be me, it is flattering, but undeserved. I am interested in Classical Tamil, use what I know of it (mostly what I learned in high...
rao.3@...
Jun 12, 2001 11:16 am
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Dear list members, since we last discussed the puLLi topic in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CTamil/message/262>, I thought it might be useful to put some...
Jean-Luc CHEVILLARD
JLC@...
Jun 14, 2001 8:37 pm
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Please see the URL below http://www.acusd.edu/theo/risa-l/archive/msg04396.html I am posting this here in the hope that some members might have the relevant...
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