[INDOLOGY] New book jointly published by the Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient and the Institut Français de Pondichéry

[Anurupa Naik]

*JUST RELEASED*
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*/A Grammar of Old Tamil for Students./*
*Eva Wilden*, Collection Indologie n˚ 137; NETamil Series n˚3, Ecole 
française d’Extrême-Orient/ Institut Français de Pondichéry, 2018, 226 
p. + 2 folded sheets
Language: English, Tamil. *650 Rs (28 €). *ISBN: 978-81-8470-227-9 (IFP) 
/ 978-2-85539-232-5 (EFEO).
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About the book

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This book presents a concise outline of the classical Tamil language for 
students with a focus on the literature of the first millennium, most 
notably that of the Caṅkam. It covers not only morphology but also 
syntax, an area which has long been neglected in Tamil studies. The 
presentation deviates from earlier works also in that the author neither 
describes classical Tamil through the lens of the modern language nor 
makes an attempt to remain faithful to the views of the traditional 
discipline of grammar (/ilakkaṇam/), but instead follows closely the 
usage of the Tamil texts as they were actually transmitted. Two folding 
sheets, at the beginning and at the end of the book, give an overview of 
early Tamil literature and verb morphology. For easy reference this 
grammar contains lists of suffixes and of grammatical terms, besides an 
index of quotations and a selective bibliography.

*About the author*

*Eva Wilden *has been a scientific member (“maître de conférences”) of 
the EFEO since 2003, working on the critical re-edition and the 
transmission history of the Caṅkam corpus. Since 2014 she is the head of 
the research program NETamil: “Going from Hand to Hand – Networks of 
Intellectual Exchange in the Tamil Learned Traditions”, funded by the 
European Research Council (ERC) and jointly hosted by the University of 
Hamburg and the EFEO. In 2015 she received the Indian presidential award 
“Kural Peetam”. Since June 2017 she is a professor for Tamil and 
Manuscript Studies at the University of Hamburg.

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