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Nyāya

Linguistic Tradition Group

• Ancient Indian linguistics
  A group of linguistic traditions

Linguistic Notions

• Passive
  1. Introduction The term 'passive' refers to an argument structure alternation or operation common in languages with nominative-accusative morphosyntactic alignment, and to verb forms...
• Subjecthood
  1 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

• Kārikāvalī
  The 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.
• Nyāyasiddhāntamuktāvalī
  The Nyāyasiddhāntamuktāvalī (a.k.a. Siddhāntamuktāvalī, Muktāvalī) is an auto-commentary on the Kārikāvalī. The author of the Nyāyasiddhāntamuktāvalī is Viśvanāthapañcānana.

Authors

• Viśvanāthapañcānana
  Viśvanāthapañcānana (a.k.a. Viśvanātha Pañcānana, Viśvanātha Nyāyapañcānana Bhaṭṭācārya) was from Bengal. Viśvanāthapañcānana's father Vidyānivāsabhaṭṭācārya was a contemporary of Kṛṣṇaśeṣa in Vārā...

Linguistic Fields

• Pragmatics
  Pragmatics 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...
• Semantics
  Semantics 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...