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Mīmāṃsā
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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MānameyodayaThe Mānameyodaya is an elementary mīmāṃsā treatise of the bhāṭṭa mīmāṃsā school. Its author is Nārāyaṇabhaṭṭa.
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MīmāṃsāsūtraThe Mīmāṃsāsūtra (a.k.a. Jaiminisūtra) is the root text of the indigenous ritual hermeneutics tradition (mīmāṃsā). Its author is Jaimini.
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ŚābarabhāṣyaThe Śābarabhāṣya (a.k.a. Mīmāṃsāsūtrabhāṣya) is the earliest extant commentary on Jaimini's Mīmāṃsāsūtra. It is one of the foundational texts of the indigenous ritual hermeneutics tradition (mīmāṃs...
Authors
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JaiminiAccording to the tradition, Jaimini was a student of Bādarāyaṇa, the author of the Brahmasūtra. Several works are attributed to Jaimini.
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NārayaṇabhaṭṭaNārayaṇabhaṭṭa (a.k.a. Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa, Nārāyaṇa) was the author of the Mānameyodaya.
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ŚabarasvāminŚabarasvāmin is also known as Śabara
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...
Cite this page:
Shen, Yiming (2021). 'Mīmāṃsā'. . First published on 28 Jun 2021. Last updated on 08 Sep 2021.
Shen, Yiming (2021). 'Mīmāṃsā'. . First published on 28 Jun 2021. Last updated on 08 Sep 2021.