Dear Jean-Luc, Thanks for your reply. You are right. I will look into the Late Old Tamil texts and the middle Tamil texts for -aam being used in the sense of...
Umarani Pappuswamy
uma_pappuswamy@...
Jul 2, 2001 9:11 pm
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Hi there, Thanks for your response. Well, I am not worried about the "v" or "l" preceding aam. My main thesis is to look for -aam being used in the sense of...
Umarani Pappuswamy
uma_pappuswamy@...
Jul 2, 2001 9:17 pm
332
The examples cited by Rajam indicate the notion of "possibility" and not "capability". This is in contrast to the Malayalam examples given by Asher & Kumari....
Umarani Pappuswamy
uma_pappuswamy@...
Jul 2, 2001 9:29 pm
333
... Yes. They are different. Thanks for the observation. But now, Jean-Luc says that we could find such examples in late old Tamil texts. Uma ...
Umarani Pappuswamy
uma_pappuswamy@...
Jul 2, 2001 9:31 pm
334
Dear Ganesan avarkaL, A small correction. I am not a Professor. I am a computational linguist - a Research Associate. Thanks for the information on the other...
Umarani Pappuswamy
uma_pappuswamy@...
Jul 2, 2001 9:35 pm
335
... Note that this medieval Tamil example by P contains a dative subject like the one Asher & Kumari mention for Malayalam ... This dative subject reminds me...
Jean-Luc CHEVILLARD
JLC@...
Jul 2, 2001 11:22 pm
336
... Umarani: << This is a good interpretation. So, parimElaZakar gets the "capability" meaning here...Great!!! ... Isn't the "capability" meaning in "tuJcalum"...
naga_ganesan@...
Jul 4, 2001 11:14 am
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... Now, I am pretty confused... The meaning I get now is :"It is possible for one to sleep amidst fire" - a possibility meaning... is this also equivalent to...
Umarani Pappuswamy
uma_pappuswamy@...
Jul 5, 2001 9:34 pm
338
... Have you gotten a PhD or working towards it? Prof. Fred Clothey in Dept. of Religion is a great scholar on Tamil culture. His book on Murukan worship is...
naga_ganesan@...
Jul 5, 2001 11:40 pm
340
... Well, I did my Ph.D in India on Computational linguistics from Central Institute of Indian Languages. I used LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR to construct a...
Umarani Pappuswamy
uma_pappuswamy@...
Jul 6, 2001 2:52 pm
341
"During the cosmogonic New Year festival of Bisket jAtrA at Bhaktapur, Bhairava is erected as the linga in the form of the cross-shaped pole .... On the last...
naga_ganesan@...
Jul 9, 2001 2:00 pm
342
... - In INDOLOGY@y..., naga_ganesan@h... wrote: [..] ... [...] In an original Kannada article written by Sri. Aerya Laxminarayan Alva and translated by Mr....
cjep_sa@...
Jul 15, 2001 6:45 pm
343
The following is perhaps not strictly 'classical' Tamil, but I was hoping that the list members could help anyway. A friendly colleague who is writing a study...
Robert J. Zydenbos
zydenbos2001@...
Jul 16, 2001 1:54 am
344
... w.. ... ... In message 142 of CTamil Ganesan wrote quoting Saskia Kersenboom http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CTamil/message/142 ... viRalis were not known...
Periannan Chandraseka...
perichandra@...
Jul 16, 2001 3:01 am
345
... phrase ... Well we will use the Saskia Kersenboom as in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CTamil/message/344 She says: on page 12 in the section titled "Bards...
Periannan Chandraseka...
perichandra@...
Jul 16, 2001 3:10 am
346
... .. ... I had forgotten to state that the book is: "NityasumangalI:Devadasi Tradition in South India" by Saskia Kersenboom-Story (1987) Regards Chandra....
Periannan Chandraseka...
perichandra@...
Jul 16, 2001 3:14 am
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... been ... Please read it as "if only ...." Thanks, Chandra...
Periannan Chandraseka...
perichandra@...
Jul 16, 2001 3:17 am
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zydenbos2001@... wrote The following is perhaps not strictly 'classical' Tamil, but I was hoping that the list members could help anyway. A friendly...
poo@...
Jul 16, 2001 3:28 am
349
Dear CTamilists, Prof.George Hart speaks of the Kinaiyans(bardic drummers, kinai=drum). Are they the same as Paraiyans (drummers, parai=drum)? Which period did...
Ashok
ashok_tm@...
Jul 16, 2001 6:03 am
350
Classical Tamil 'pulaitti' and Skt. 'rajakI' ... The meaning of 'rajakI' (washerwoman) in Sanskrit becomes clear when compared with her name in the ancient...
naga_ganesan@...
Jul 16, 2001 12:47 pm
351
R. Vijayalakshmy, Tamizaka makaLir: toTakka kAla mutal ARAm nURRANTu varai, IITS, 1997. This book is very interesting for all those interested about the...
naga_ganesan@...
Jul 16, 2001 1:29 pm
352
... paRaiyan2 is mentioned in CT (puRam 335-7). kiNai and paRai are drum-types....
naga_ganesan@...
Jul 16, 2001 1:48 pm
353
Dear Dr. Zydenbos, We do not know the birth place of vaLLuvar, the legend that he was born in Mylapore probably belongs to colonial period, with the rise of...
naga_ganesan@...
Jul 16, 2001 2:11 pm
354
... otl kiNai kiNai 1. drum used in agricultural tract; 2. small drum shaped like an hour-glass This kiNai is the one found in the imagery of Siva along with...
Ashok
ashok_tm@...
Jul 16, 2001 5:24 pm
355
... Therefore ... Other possible indicators: - Indra was still a popular god. - The Nirgrantha ascetic mentions the Angas and Purvas as currently existing. In...
ymalaiya@...
Jul 17, 2001 10:45 pm
356
... CT occurrence of uvan2: uvan2 varin2 evan2 O pANa pEtai -naRRi.127-3 pUN Aram nOkki puNar mulai pArttAn2 uvan2 -pari.12-55 CT uvaL: paNTAram kAman2 paTai...
naga_ganesan@...
Jul 18, 2001 12:56 pm
357
Dear tiru N. Ganesan, the use of medial deictic (u) in CTamil is a known fact and I myself quoted, at the beginning of this thread, one naRRiNai example where...
Jean-Luc CHEVILLARD
JLC@...
Jul 18, 2001 3:40 pm
358
... The medial deictic (u) is attested in Early Middle Tamil too. Cf TiruvAymozi 1.1.4 nAmavan2 ivan2 uvan2 avaL ivaL uvaL evaL tAmavar ivar uvar atuvitu...
lsrinivas@...
Jul 19, 2001 1:08 pm
359
Very briefly, I finally obtained, a few weeks ago, a copy of the book that was mentionned at the very beginning of this thread ...
Jean-Luc CHEVILLARD
JLC@...
Jul 20, 2001 10:09 am
360
The CT verbs for "daub"/"smear" are 'izuku-tal' and 'izukku-tal', and their occurrences: 'izuki' (puRa. 281:3); 'izukk'- (aka. 18:12, aka. 107:14, naR. 205:4, ...
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