linguistics
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Pāṇini, the “Glitch,” and a Note From an Old Cambridge Friend
X.T.M introduces Rishi Rajpopat’s new book Pāṇini’s Perfect Rule, which argues that the supposed rule-conflict flaw in Pāṇini’s grammar never existed because the system already resolves it. He is arranging…
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Is the Mesopotamian world for elephant ‘Dravidian’?
The author links a Nature paper arguing that the Mesopotamian word for ‘elephant’ points to a Dravidian language in the Indus Civilisation; he leans towards agreeing but finds the chain…
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Live Blogging: White noise, séances & colonial linguistics
Live notes on Professor Javed Majeed’s lecture on George Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India and its gramophone recordings, covering how the survey shaped the boundaries of regional languages and is…
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Live Blogging-Endangered Zoroastrian Heritage of Iran
Live notes on Saloumeh Gholami’s talk on endangered Zoroastrian heritage in Kerman and Yazd, especially Zoroastrian Dari (Gavri), a critically endangered language closer to Kurdish than Persian, losing speakers to…
