Classical India
Research interests in Classical India include the grammar of Classical Sanskrit, Indian grammatical theory and philosophy of language, as well as logic and metaphysics.
Edited Books
- Logic in early Classical India (with a 25 page introduction). Motilal Banarsidass (Delhi, India), 2010.
Classical India: Classical Sanskrit
Research Collaboration
Work with Gerard Huet of the Institut national de recherche en informatique et automatique (INRIA) to develop a searchable corpus of Classical Sanskrit texts and the software to exploit them for research both on Sanskrit in particular and Linguistics in general.
Publications
Published articles on Classical India covering, on the one hand, Sanskrit syntax and morphology, as well as the semantics of various particles, and on the other, the development of logic and grammatical thought.
Sanskrit Syntax
- Linguistic investigations into Ellipsis in classical Sanskrit, Proceedings of Sanskrit Computational Linguistics: Fourth International Symposium, Delhi, India, December 10-12, 2010 (Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence v. 6465, edited by Girish Nath Jha), pp. 218-230.
- Classical Sanskrit, "wild trees" and the properties of free word order languages. (with Benjamin Shaer). Universal Language in the Reconstruction of Ancient Languages. John Benjamins, edited by K. Kiss, 2005, pp. 457-494.
- Subject predicate order in classical Sanskrit. Language and Grammar: Studies in Mathematical Linguistics and Natural Language. Center for the Study of Language and Information, edited by Philip Scott, Claudia Casadio and Robert Seely, 2005, pp. 157-187.
- Word order in the Svārthānumāna of Dharmakīrti's Pramāṇavārttika. Studies in the Buddhist Epistemological Tradition. Proceedings of the Second International Dharmakīrti Conference, Vienna, 11-16 June, 1989. (Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, edited Ernst Steinkellner), pp. 59-65.
- Word order in classical Sanskrit. Indian Linguistics : v. 57, pp. 1-35.
Sanskrit Word Formation
- Tagging classical Sanskrit compounds. Proceedings of Sanskrit Computational Linguistics: Third International Symposium, Hyderabad, India, January 15-17, 2009 (Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence v. 5406, edited by Amba Kulkarni and Gérard Huet), pp. 98-106.
- Autonomy of word formation: Evidence from classical Sanskrit. Indian Linguistics : v. 56, 1995, pp. 15-52.
- Bhartṛhari's solution to the problem of Asamartha compounds. Asiatische Studien Études Asiatiques : v. 47, 1993, pp. 117-133.
Sanskrit Varia
- Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī and Linguistic Theory. Journal of Indian Philosophy : v. 35, 2007, pp. 445-468.
- Bhartṛhari's rule for unexpressed kārakas: The problem of control in classical Sanskrit. Indian Linguistic Studies : Festschrift in Honour of George Cardona Motilal Banarsidass. Edited by M. Deshpande, 2001, pp. 93-111.
- Another look at the Sanskrit particle eva. Proceedings of the Third International Dharmakīrti Conference, Hiroshima, 11-16 November, 1997 (Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, edited by Shoryu Katsura), pp. 117-130.
- On two kinds of negation in Sanskrit. Lokaprajña : v. 1, 1987, pp. 85-99.
- Adjectives in Sanskrit (with Siniruddha Dash). Brahmavidyā: The Adyar Library Bulletin : v. 59, pp. 285-294.
- The role of the particle eva in logical quantification in Sanskrit (with Richard P. Hayes). Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens : v. 26, pp. 195-203.
Classical India: Logic
Research Collaboration
- Work with Richard Hayes (Department of Philosophy, University of New Mexico) to parse, translate and explain the Svārthānumāna chapter of Dharmakīrti's Pramāṇavārttika.
- Work with Shoryu Katsura (Ryukoku University) to translate the
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Publications
- Obversion and contraposition in the Nyāyabhāsya. Logic in early Classical India. Motilal Banarsidass, edited by Brendan Gillon, 2010, pp. 167-182.
- The role of knowledge of causation in Dharmakīrti's theory of inference. Buddhist Philosophy: Essential Readings. Oxford University Press, edited by William Edelglass and Jay Garfield, 2009.
- Dharmakīrti on inference from effect: a discussion of the verse 12 and the svavṛtti of the Svārthānumāna chapter of the Pramāṇavārttika. Proceedings of the Fourth International Dharmakīrti Conference, Vienna, August 23-27, 2005 (Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, edited by Helmut Krasser, Horst Lasic, Eli Franco and Birgit Kellner, 2010), pp. 113-129.
- Dharmakīrti on the role of causation in inference as presented in Pramāṇavārttika Svopajñavṛtti 11-38. Journal of Indian Philosophy: v. 36, n. 3, 2008, p. 335-404.
- Indian theories of inference. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Routeledge Limited, edited by Edward Craig, 2007, v. 4, pp. 759-766.
- Nyāya-sūtra 5.1.2: anomalies in the bhāṣya. Journal of Indian Philosophy : v. 31, 2003, pp. 47-60.
- Introduction to Dharmakirti's theory of inference as presented in Pramāṇavārttika Svopajñavṛtti 1-10 (with Richard P. Hayes). Journal of Indian Philosophy : v. 19, 1991, pp. 1-73.
- Dharmakirti and the problem of induction. Studies in the Buddhist Epistemological Tradition. Proceedings of the Second International Dharmakirti Conference, Vienna, 11-16 June, 1989 (Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, edited by Ernst Steinkellner), pp. 53-58.
- Dharmakirti and his theory of inference. Buddhist Logic and Epistemology. D. Reidel Co., edited by B. K. Matilal and R. D. Evans, 1986, pp. 77-87.
- Indian logic revisited: Nyayapraveṡa Reviewed (with Martha Lyle Love). Journal of Indian Philosophy : v. 8, 1980, pp. 349-384.
Metaphysics
- Negative facts in classical Indian philosophy. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Routledge Limited, edited by Edward Craig, v. 6, 2007, pp. 755-759.
- Negative facts and knowledge of negative facts. Relativism, Suffering and Beyond. Essays in memory of Bimal K. Matilal. Oxford University Press, edited by P. Bilimoria and J. N. Mohanty, 1997, pp. 127-147.
