Two small points, if I may.
First, what seems to be referred to here as "Western" grammar, as
completely unrelated to "Paninean grammar" should be defined. The
grammars we use for European languages were heavily influenced by the
discovery of Sanskrit grammar and the ensuing developement of IE
studies. This is apparent when reading many twentieth-century Greek and
Latin grammars. I would recommend avoiding the word "Western" in this
context, or many others for that matter, if one wants to be precise.
When we speak of "tone sa.mdhi" in Chinese, is this phrase
understandable in terms of a putative "Western grammar" that would not
include borrowings from Sanskrit?
Second, as Jan Houben pointed out, there is a trend in some circles to
eliminate Sanskrit terms and concepts, usually without adequate
discussion, or creation of new terms or concepts. Those who are
interested in an explanation on simple examples of how Paninean grammar
actually works may want to look up:
Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat, "Grammaire sanscrite pâninéenne", Paris:
Picard, 1988.
This book does not seem to be available electronically.
Grammar as a (contemporary) science (as opposed to an art -- a tekhnè)
owes much of its existence to Sanskrit. Fédérique Ildefonse argues that
grammar in Greek as a discipline emerged rather late
Best,
Satyanad Kichenassamy
Le 06/09/2024 à 02:10, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY a écrit :
I meant to write:
Jan Houben wrote:
Historically, introductions to Sanskrit since the nineteenth century are
rather characterized by gradually filtering out Sanskrit grammatical terms
and
Hans Hock wrote:
, as long as we don’t expect anything more than corresponding terms for
case marking there should be no problem
Looking at the table of contents to Apte's "Student's Guide to Sanskrit
Composition (third edition 1890)" only western grammatical terms are used.
Does that mean that the grammar of sanskrit sentences can be correctly
described using western grammatical terms, but it's just that those western
grammatical terms don't correspond to Indian grammatical terms for sanskrit.
Link to the ninth edition (reprint of third edition?)
https://archive.org/download/StudentsGuideToSanskritComposition-VsApte1925/StudentsGuideToSanskritComposition-VsApte1925.pdf
Harry Spier
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