Dear everyone,

The Tamilex project is pleased to announce its inaugural conference, "Exploring New Ways in Tamil Lexicography," to take place from 7–9 August 2023, in Hamburg and online. For the full program and to register for online attendance, go to https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/ends/events.html

An abbreviated conference program follows:

7th August 2023

Suganya Anandakichenin, Neela Bhaskar, & Eva Wilden: Welcome
Eva Wilden & Charles Li: Tamilex, the Project

History of Lexicography
E. Annamalai: Change of Meaning as History
Nachimuthu: The Old Tamil Commentaries in the Making of Tamil Dictionaries for Classical Tamil
Suganya Anandakichenin: The Madras Tamil Lexicon and the Śrīvaiṣṇava Corpus: A Love Story of Sorts

The Influence of Sanskrit
Neela Bhaskar & Giovanni Ciotti: Towards the Process of Standardisation – Tamil in the 19^th Century
Charles Li: Linking the two T's: Tamil, Tibetan, & Other Commentaries on the Amarakoṣa
Victor d’Avella: Examining Tamil Nikaṇṭus Alongside Their Sanskrit Counterparts

keynote lecture
Jean-Luc Chevillard: Taming Randomness and Exploring Open-endedness: Ancient Tamil Lexicographers at Work


8th August 2023

Text Semantics 1
T. Rajeshwari: Rare Words in Patiṟṟuppattu
Indra Manuel: Language of Paripāṭal – Special Lexis
G. Vijayavenugopal: On understanding the Grammar, Language and Meaning of Puṟanāṉūṟu

Nikaṇṭus
Jean-Luc Chevillard & Margherita Trento: Beschi’s Caturakarāti as a Bridge Between Traditional Nikaṇṭus and Modern Lexicographers of Tamil
Srilata Raman: Shifting Worlds: The Nikaṇṭu, Literature, and Lexicography in 19^th–20^th century Tamil India

Corpus Semantics
Maanasa Visweswaran: Semantics in the Pattuppāṭṭu: Indo-Aryan Loan Words, Isolated Occurrences
Erin McCann: Indexing the NATP: Observations and Challenges


9th August 2023

Text Semantics 2
Leo Rishi Nelson Jones: Some Interesting Lexicographical Questions from the Tamiḻneṟi Viḷakkam
S. Saravanan: Some New Words and Their Meanings in Nālaṭiyār

Object Semantics
Nikolay Gordichuk: Words for ‘Enemy’ in the Old Tamil of the First Millennium
Roland Ferenczi: On Ancient Tamil Waters: Shipping-Related Terms in Early Old Tamil Literature

Lexicographical Shifts
Eva Wilden: Tamilex: Why a New Tamil Dictionary and What Could It Look Like?
Anna Smirnitskaya: Tamil Lexicon and the Database of Semantic Shifts. Can the Model of Semantic Shifts Help to Understand the Structure of Meanings of Polysemous Tamil Words?

final discussion

Best,

Charles