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Nyāya
Linguistic Tradition Group
Linguistic Notions
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Passive1. Introduction The term 'passive' refers to an argument structure alternation or operation common in languages with nominative-accusative morphosyntactic alignment, and to verb forms...
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Subjecthood1 Introduction The notion 'subject' is an ancient one in the Western linguistic tradition, going back to at least Aristotle. In modern Western linguistics, the notion of 'subject' rema...
Texts
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KārikāvalīThe Kārikāvalī (a.k.a. Bhāṣāpariccheda) is a set of around 170 verses in which a compendium of views of the nyāya tradition is given. The author of the Kārikāvalī is Viśvanāthapañcānana.
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NyāyasiddhāntamuktāvalīThe Nyāyasiddhāntamuktāvalī (a.k.a. Siddhāntamuktāvalī, Muktāvalī) is an auto-commentary on the Kārikāvalī. The author of the Nyāyasiddhāntamuktāvalī is Viśvanāthapañcānana.
Authors
Linguistic Fields
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PragmaticsPragmatics is the study of meaning beyond the literal meaning of words and their composition into phrases and clauses, encompassing in very broad terms much of the ‘use’ of language in the real...
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SemanticsSemantics is the study of the meaning of linguistic expressions, and more specifically the study of the literal meaning of linguistic expressions (in contrast with pragmatics, the study of the u...
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Shen, Yiming (2021). 'Nyāya'. . First published on 06 Aug 2021. Last updated on 06 Aug 2021.
Shen, Yiming (2021). 'Nyāya'. . First published on 06 Aug 2021. Last updated on 06 Aug 2021.