Table des matières
Jean-Luc Chevillard
Remerciements/AcknowledgementsR.E. Asher
PrefaceFrançois Gros
Ma vie sans moiJean-Luc Chevillard
Avant-propos : Horizons des études tamoulesEva wilden
Searching for perspectives (Second Foreword)Studies in Devotional, Contemporary, Classical and Folk Literatures
Judit Törzsök
Śiva le fou et ses dévots tamouls dans le TēvāramAlvappillai Veluppillai
The Position of Saint Appar in Tamil Śaivism- 1. Introduction
- 2. Distinctive Features of Appar’s Tamil Śaivism
- 2.1. The Dancing Śiva.
- 2.2. Murukaṉ’s father claims Tamil loyalty.
- 2.3. Refinement of Śaiva sects.
- 2.4. Assimilation of an old form of worship.
- 3. Appar and Jainism
- 3.1. Impact of Jainism.
- 3.2. Jain ideology, as reflected in the Nālaṭiyār.
Emanuela Panattoni
Il Tirukkuṟuntāṇṭakam e il Tiruneṭuntāṇṭakam di TirumaṅkaiyāḻvārS. Palaniappan
Āḻvār or Nāyaṉār: The Role of Sound Variation, Hypercorrection and Folk Etymology in Interpreting the Nature of Vaiṣṇava Saint-Poets- 1. Introduction:
- 2. Linguistic analysis of āḻvār/āḷvār
- 3. āḻvā/ar/ṉ and āḷvā/ar/ṉ in pre-Bhakti Tamil literature
- 4. āḻvā/ar/ṉ and āḷvā/ar/ṉ referring to Śiva in texts
- 5. āḻvā/ar/ṉ and āḷvā/ar/ṉ referring to Viṣṇu in texts
- 6. āḻvā/ar/ṉ and āḷvā/ar/ṉ referring to devotees in texts
- 7. āḷvār/ṉ and āḻvār/ṉ in inscriptions
- 7.1 Change of āḷvār to āḻvār over time
- 7.2 āḷvār/āḻvār appellations for the members of the Cōḻa royal family
- 7.3 āḻvār in reference to Śaiva and Vaiṣṇava religious leaders
- 8. Acceptance of Sound Variation and Folk Etymology
- 9. āḷvār, āḻvār and sūri in Jainism
- 10. Conclusions
Indira Viswanathan Peterson
Śaiva religion and the performing arts in a Tamil Novel: Kalaimaṇi's Tillāṉā Mōkaṉāmpāḷ- I. Introduction: The Reconstruction of Tradition in a Tamil novel of the 1950́s
- The Plot of Tillāṉā Mōkaṉāmpāḷ
- Reimagining a sacred Tamil past
- II Translations from Tillāṉā Mōkaṉāmpāḷ
- Chapter 45 The Pāri Nāyaṉam
- Chapter 48 There is neither victory nor defeat for the brave
- Chapter 52 The flood that flowed from the heart
- Chapter 55 The enchanting pāri nāyaṉam
- Chapter 62 Life sprouted, consciousness blossomed
Gabriella Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi
Facing Death in Modern Tamil LiteratureE. Annamalai
Post-Modern Trends in TamilDavid Shulman
Notes on TillaikkalampakamEva wilden
On the Condensation and Extension of Knowledge: The Sūtra Style in the Tolkāppiyam PoruḷatikāramTakanobu Takahashi
Tolkāppiyam Poruḷatikāram and Iṟaiyaṉār Akapporuḷ: Their Relative Chronology- 1. Introduction
- 2. Previous Discussions on the Subject
- 3. Terminology of Love Poetics Used in the TP and the IA
- Category 4: Terms found in colophons and the IA, but not in the TP
- Category 5: A love event referred to in colophons, the TP, and the IA, but with different expressions being used
- 4. Interpretation of the Differences in Terminology
- 5. Concluding
- List of abbreviations
A.G. Menon
Configuration of Natural Elements in the Mountain songs- Introduction
- Who is Kapilar?
- The poems of Kapilar
- Karupporuḷs of Kapilar
- Vēṅkai
- Elephant
- Karupporuḷs and their network
- Explicit function of Karupporuḷ in configuration
- Karupporuḷ and their use
- Three examples for the use of Karupporuḷ in a poem
- What is configuration?
- Methodology
- Elements of Configuration: Colour
- Sound
- The Corpus
- Kuṟiñcikkali 5
- Kuṟiñcikkali 7
- Configurations
- Symphony as a result of configuration
- Symphony of nature and animal: Kuṟiñcippāṭṭu 186-199.
- Symphony of animals/birds, Aiṇkuṟunūṟu 291
- Configuration: Male and Female animals
- Male and female elephants
- Male and female tigers
- Male and female monkeys
- Male and female wild pig
- Sheep and Ram
- Cow and bull
- Male and female bees
- Elements of Combinations
- Themes
- Uḷḷurai, simile, metaphor, metonymy, inset and iṟaicci
- The sixth sense and configuration
- Comparison with other poets of Kuṟiñci
- Vaṭamavaṇṇakkaṉ Pēricāttanār
- Perum Kuṉṟūr Kiḻār
- Conclusions
Dieter B. Kapp
Rāmāyaṇa Allusions in Tamil RiddlesStudies in Language and History of Language Description
Kamil V. Zvelebil
Prolegomena to an Etymological Dictionary to the Iṟula LanguageHarold F. Schiffman
The Tamil Case System- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Inventory and Distribution of Case Morphemes
- 1.2. Syntax and Case
- 1.3 Case and Postpositions
- 1.3.1 Postpositions
- 1.4. Variation in the system
- 1.5. Differences between Literary and Spoken
- 1.5.1. Variation with the Dative
- 1.5.2. Dative with uḷḷe
- 1.5.3. Proximity vs. contact
- 1.6. Conclusions
Thomas Lehmann
Pronoun incorporation in Old Tamil- 1. Introduction
- 2. The category kuṟippu viṉai in traditional Tamil grammar
- 3. Defective verbs vs. pronominalised nouns vs. adjectival nouns
- 4.1. Surface structure of the personalised nouns and adjectival nouns
- 4.2. The morphological process of pronoun incorporation.
- 4.3. Syntactic argumentation
- 4.4. Underlying structure of the personalised nouns
- 4.5. Underlying structure of the adjectival noun
- 5. Conclusion
S. Agesthialingom
Numeral System in Tamil: GenerationJaroslav Vacek
Dravidian and Altaic "Sheep - Deer - Cattle"Herman Tieken
The Nature of the Language of Caṇkam Poetry- 1. Introduction
- 2. The linguistic evidence for an early date of Caṇkam poetry
- 3. The language of the inscriptions
- 4. The language of the Bhakti poems
- 5. The finite verb tense system in Caṇkam poetry
- 6. The rareness of the present tense in –k (k) i (ṉ) ṟ- in Caṇkam poetry
- 7. ceyti and kēṫkuvaṉ
- 8. Old Tamil celval, kāñku and irukkiṟpōr
- 9. Caṇkam Tamil as an artificial language
- 10. Concluding remarks
Sheldon Pollock
A New Philology: From Norm-bound Practice to Practice-bound Norm in Kannada Intellectual HistoryJean-Luc Chevillard
Ideophones in Tamil: a Historical Perspective on the X-eṉal expressives (Olikkuṟippu Āṟṟuppaṫai)- Prelude
- X-eṉal expressions inside the Tēvāram
- The Tēvāram data in a dynamic perspective
- The Tēvāram data compared with its past
- Establishing the X-eṉal spectrum of specific texts
- HLD: The Tivākaram and its aṉukaraña-v-ōcai-s
- Sanskrit roots of Tivākaram terminology.
- R-Type (and suffixed S-Type) expressions in traditional lexicons
- Emancipation of X-eṉal expressions from the eṉal component
- The rise of suffixes
- The rise of the E-type
- HGD: The grammarianś analysis: a semantic triad
- The triad and the rise of "quality"
- Conclusion
Studies in History, Epigraphy and Archaeology
Leslie C. Orr
Processions in the medieval South Indian temple: Sociology, sovereignty and soteriology- Processions in Madurai — the sixth to ninth century
- Processions in modern Madurai
- Processions in-between: the Chola period temple and its everyday rituals
- Festivals: the god at home and abroad
- Who’s on parade?: comings and goings
- Getting from here to there
- The politics of processions
- Going in procession: the Lord appears
- Lords of temples and of palaces
- Seeing god/ The seeing god
- The procession in history: gods on the move
Kesavan Veluthat
Mahōdayapuram-Koṫuṇṇallūr: a Capital City as a Sacred CentreR. Nagaswamy
Sangam Poetic traditions under the Imperial Cōḻa-sIravatham Mahadevan
Voicing of consonants in Old Tamil: New evidence from Tamil-Brāhmī- 1. Caldwell’s Law
- 2. New evidence from Tamil-Brāhmī
- 3. Absence of voiced consonants in Tamil-Brāhmī
- 4. Substitution of voiced with voiceless consonants in loanwords
- 5. Adaptation of Pkt. loanwords in Tamil-Brāhmī
- (1) Loss of voicing
- (2) Loss of aspiration
- (3) Loss of anusvāra ṁ
- (4) Loss of h
- (5) Substitution of sibilants
- (6) Intervocalic
- (7) IA non-initial -n > Ta. -ṉ
- (8) IA final -ā > Ta. -ai
- 6. Substitution of voiced with voiceless consonants in Pkt. inscriptions
- 7. Weakened articulation of consonants
- 8. Minimal presence and loss of the sibilant s
- 9. Tolkāppiyam silent on voicing
- 10. Evidence of voicing only from the early medieval period
- 11. Interpreting the evidence
- 12. Discussion
- 13. Conclusion
Vimala Begley
The Dating of Arikamedu and its Bearing on the Archaeology of Early Historical South IndiaOsmund Bopearachchi
Ancient Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu: Maritime TradeG. Vijayavenugopal
New Jaina inscriptions from Kūvaṉūr, Tamilnadu, IndiaAppasamy Murugaiyan
Stèles funéraires en pays tamoul : Langue et société aux 6e-7e siècles- 1. Introduction :
- 2. Corpus :
- 3. Langue et société tamoules :
- 4.1. Culture épigraphique tamoule :
- 4.2. Tamoul et problématique du niveau de langue :
- 5. Stèle funéraire, monument commémoratif populaire :
- 5.1. Structure des inscriptions de stèles funéraires :
- 5.2. Stèles funéraires, langue et société :
- 5.3. Faits phonologiques et de sandhi :
- 5.4. Noms patronymiques et toponymiques :
- 5.4.1. Noms patronymiques :
- 5.4.2. Noms toponymiques :
- 6. Conclusion :
Chant-mêlé ou Paripāṭal ou Satura
Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman et Sanjay Subrahmanyam
A new imperial idiom in the sixteenth century: Krishnadevaraya and his political theory of VijayanagaraA.R. Venkatachalapathy
Triumph of Tobacco: The Tamil ExperienceT.V. Gopal Iyer
The victory in human lifeகண்ணன். M. et Kannan M.
1987-ஐநது கவிதைகள Five Poems