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Linguistic Paradox and Diglossia: the emergence of Sanskrit and Sanskritic language in Ancient India
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In: Open Linguistics, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 1-18 (2018) (2018)
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Abstract:
“We know that Middle Indian (Middle Indo-Aryan) makes its appearance in epigraphy prior to Sanskrit: this is the great linguistic paradox of India.” In these words Louis Renou (1956: 84) referred to a problem in Sanskrit studies for which so far no satisfactory solution had been found. I will here propose that the perceived “paradox” derives from the lack of acknowledgement of certain parameters in the linguistic situation of Ancient India which were insufficiently appreciated in Renou’s time, but which are at present open to systematic exploration with the help of by now well established sociolinguistic concepts, notably the concept of “diglossia”. Three issues will here be addressed in the light of references to ancient and classical Indian texts, Sanskrit and Sanskritic. A simple genetic model is indadequate, especially when the ‘linguistic area’ applies also to what can be reconstructed for earlier periods. The so-called Sanskrit “Hybrids” in the first millennium CE, including the Prakrits and Epics, are rather to be regarded as emerging “Ausbau” languages of Indo-Aryan with hardly any significant mutual “Abstand” before they will be succesfully “roofed,” in the second half of the first millennium CE, by “classical” Sanskrit.
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Keyword:
diglossia; emerging languages; old persian; P1-1091; Philology. Linguistics; prakrit; sanskrit; sociolinguistics; “hybrid” sanskrit
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URL: https://doaj.org/article/bd0e0474bac04168b8f991717473f6f0
https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2018-0001
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Recontextualisation and reappropriation of social and political discourses in toilet graffiti at the University of the Western Cape
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In: Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, Vol 55, Iss 0, Pp 27-45 (2018) (2018)
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Translating Yemeni cartoons into English: A Systemic Functional Linguistics approach
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In: Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, Vol 55, Iss 0, Pp 47-75 (2018) (2018)
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Negation of subject with nominal modifiers in Sesotho
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In: Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, Vol 54, Iss 0, Pp 45-59 (2018) (2018)
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ATR vowel harmony in Ateso
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In: Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, Vol 54, Iss 0, Pp 61-69 (2018) (2018)
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Speaker’s reference, semantic reference and public reference
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In: Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, Vol 55, Iss 0, Pp 133-143 (2018) (2018)
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Portuguese and spanish teletandem: the role of mediators
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In: Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal, Pp 35-48 (2018) (2018)
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Animacy and Affectedness in Germanic Languages
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In: Open Linguistics, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 566-588 (2018) (2018)
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A heuristic framework for voice instruction at the doctoral level
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In: Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, Vol 55, Iss 0, Pp 7-26 (2018) (2018)
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Voorkeurstrategieë in die Noord-Sotho-vertaling van Terminologie van het tolken
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In: Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, Vol 55, Iss 0, Pp 109-131 (2018) (2018)
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A comparative study of depression in Bantu, Khoisan and Chinese Wu – laryngeal settings and feature specifications
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In: Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, Vol 54, Iss 0, Pp 17-43 (2018) (2018)
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High tone lowering and raising in Tsua
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In: Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, Vol 54, Iss 0, Pp 1-16 (2018) (2018)
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Initial findings of a socio-cultural-pedagogical investigative approach to PHL: the educators and the initiatives.
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In: Domínios de Lingu@gem, Vol 12, Iss 2, Pp 1180-1209 (2018) (2018)
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Progressive forms and meanings: the curious case of Capeverdean
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In: Estudos de Linguistica Galega, Vol 10 (2018) (2018)
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In: Estudos de Linguistica Galega (2018) (2018)
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Lenguas de signos en el estado español: estatus y territorialidad
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In: Estudos de Linguistica Galega, Vol 10 (2018) (2018)
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Bibliografía 2016
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In: Estudos de Linguistica Galega, Vol 10 (2018) (2018)
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Sobre as origens da distinção entre negação de proposição e negação de evento no Português Brasileiro
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In: Estudos de Linguistica Galega (2018) (2018)
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Comité de avaliación científica
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In: Estudos de Linguistica Galega (2018) (2018)
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Negative Indefinites in the history of Portuguese : the case of nemigalha
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In: Estudos de Linguistica Galega (2018) (2018)
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