[INDOLOGY] Sanskrit syntax

Sat May 25 17:44:56 UTC 2013

Dear Chris,

I would like to be part of the discussion. Maybe I can help with the OCR  
part of the Sanskrit portions, if need be.

Best,

Jürgen

On Sat, 25 May 2013 17:02:11 +0200, Christopher Wallis  
<bhairava11 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Certainly everyone on this list can read the Nāgarī; our idea was to  
> retypeset in a readable, modern format to make the book more >appealing  
> to graduate students (who generally don't use it, at least in the  
> U.S.).  A clean and beautiful edition, print-on-demand, or >available as  
> a pdf for free, with improved index, updated IAST, and other new  
> features.
>
> If the members of Indology pulled this off all by themselves,  
> collaboratively, what a proof of concept it would be for a new era of  
> >academic publishing!
>
> We are discussing this off-list, please email myself or Dominik to be  
> part of the discussion.
>
> best,Chris Wallis
> U.C. Berkeley
>
>
> On 25 May 2013 09:01, Patrick Olivelle <jpo at uts.cc.utexas.edu> wrote:
>> Let me also -- since we are in the admiring mood -- add my own voice to  
>> this. And to think that it was done in 1886!! I am >>privileged to have  
>> the original edition of 1886 published in Leyden (so spelled) by E.J.  
>> Brill. It once belonged to Shackleton Bailey >>and is still in perfect  
>> condition, and I really don't have any problems reading the Devanagari,  
>> although it is in an old, but beautiful, >>font.
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 25, 2013, at 5:07 AM, dermot at GREVATT.FORCE9.CO.UK wrote:
>>
>>> I'm another admirer. I have a beautifully printed, sturdily bound and  
>>> much used
>>> Japanese reprint (Rinshen-Shoten Bookstore, Kyoto, 1968). Speyer is so  
>>> methodical
>>> that his statements still make sense despite changes in linguistic  
>>> theory, so long as
>>> you understand his dated, Latin-based terminology; and he balances  
>>> Paninian
>>> prescriptions with observations of actual texts.
>>>
>>> Dermot Killingley
>>> Newcastle
>>>
>>> On 23 May 2013 at 15:43, Whitney Cox wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm a huge admirer of Speyer's book--I honestly feel like I learn
>>>> something new and interesting every single time I open it-- but I do
>>>> agree with Chris that it would benefit from re-setting.  The font in
>>>> which the Nāgarī text is set can make for hard reading for those who
>>>> aren't used to it: there are many times that I've strongly recommended
>>>> it to intermediate students who have found it difficult to make sense
>>>> of.  Also, Speyer doesn't always translate his examples: this isn't a
>>>> problem for those with more experience in the language, but the target
>>>> audience of language learners are sometimes at a disadvantage, which
>>>> is a real shame.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 23 May 2013 15:16, Paul Hackett <ph2046 at columbia.edu> wrote:
>>>>    Dear Chris and others,
>>>>      I do not know if Speier/Speyer/Speijer's _Sanskrit Syntax_ has
>>>>    been re-typeset or not, but there are publications for sale that
>>>>    give the impression of a new edition.  I discovered this when
>>>>    attempting to purchase a copy a couple of years ago only to
>>>>    discover that some "enterprising" individuals have been data
>>>>    mining Google books (and/or possibly the DLI) and selling
>>>>    exceptionally poor copies (missing pages, underlining, margin
>>>>    notes, etc.) of many books (including Speijer's) through a
>>>>    print-on-demand service as "new books". Just a warning to beware.
>>>>
>>>>   I can say that the 2009 paperback from Motilal is very clean and
>>>> readable. best, Paul HackettColumbia University
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On May 23, 2013, at 3:03 PM, Christopher Wallis wrote:
>>>>    Dear Peter and fellow Indologists,
>>>>    Does anyone know whether Speier's original Sanskrit Syntax has
>>>>    been re-typeset or if there are any plans to do this?  It seems
>>>>    quite worthwhile.
>>>>
>>>> best,
>>>> Chris Wallis
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 20 May 2013 10:52, Peter Scharf <scharfpm7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>    Dear colleagues,The History of Linguistic Theory lab. at the
>>>>    University of Paris 7, Denis Diderot, will host a seminar on
>>>>    Sanskrit syntax 13-15 June. The program begins with a keynote
>>>>    address by Professor Emeritus Hans Hock who in 1986 edited the
>>>>    volume on Sanskrit syntax in honor of the centennial of Speier's
>>>>    Sanskrit Syntax.  The second day of the program begins with a
>>>>    special lecture by George Cardona concerned with contributions of
>>>>    Paninian grammar to Sanskrit syntax.  The afternoon of the 15th
>>>>    will include several presentations on the state of image-text
>>>>    alignment for Sanskrit manuscripts.  Please see
>>>>    the announcement of the seminar and the full program under
>>>>    Events on the Sanskrit Library website.
>>>> Scholars are invited to attend.  Please register at no cost on the
>>>> seminar website. The seminar is sponsored by the Chaire
>>>> Internationale de Recherche Blaise Pascal financée par l’Etat et la
>>>> Région d'Ile-de-France, gérée par la Fondation de l’Ecole Normale
>>>> Supérieure. Yours sincerely,Peter
>>>>
>>>> Peter M. Scharf, President
>>>> The Sanskrit Library
>>>> scharf at sanskritlibrary.org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *************************************************
>>>> Peter M. Scharf, Ph.D.
>>>> Université Paris Diderot
>>>> Laboratoire d'Histoire des Théories Linguistiques
>>>> 5 rue Thomas Mann, Case 7034
>>>> Cedex 13
>>>> 75205 Paris
>>>> France
>>>> 33-1-5727-5742 (phone)
>>>> peter.scharf at univ-paris-diderot.fr
>>>> *************************************************
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> peter.scharf at inria.fr
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dr. Whitney Cox
>>>> Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit
>>>> Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia,
>>>> SOAS, University of London
>>>> Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
>>>> London WC1H 0XG
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