English summary Beschi' s importance cannot be overestimated because it seems he was the first to produce a detailed analysis of the grammatical structure of Tamil that could be used in a Western language (Latin). However, a precise assessment of his role is only possible if we relate him with his historical background in Latin grammar. We discover that conceptions about «appellative verbs», deemed to be Beschi's owns by later writers such as Caldwell, have been extrapolated on the basis of non-explicit formulations, his attitude being a compromise between his Latin heritage and his willingness to do justice to Tamil.
: The Tamil tradition does not recognise adjectives among its morphological classifications, even if it is concerned with a certain number of problems which I would describe as adjectival. Such problems can be grouped : 1. in relation to a common semantic problem (see the term panpu), and 2. in relation to paraphrastic strategies which vary from grammarian to grammarian, and which link the different elements of what I would term the adjectival paradigm.
Jean-Luc Chevillard
Le Tēvāram au XXe siècle
La recherche occidentale sur le corpus shivaïte tamoul est active à Pondichéry depuis plus de 40 ans. Elle a associé des indianistes et des lettrés traditionnels, et a donné lieu notamment à des éditions de textes et des entreprises de traduction. Dans le cas du Tēvāram, nom qui désigne les 7 premiers des 12 livres que comporte le canon, un manuscrit d'environ 3 500 pages, œuvre du lettré V. M. Subramanya Ayyar (1905-1981), est disponible dans les bibliothèques de l'EFEO et de PIFP : il met à la disposition des lecteurs sa glose en anglais indien du XXe siècle de ce texte qui date probablement des VIIe et VIIIe siècles. Partant de ce travail, non publié à ce jour, la présente étude examine, d'une part, l'enracinement actuel du Tëvàram dans son public religieux naturel et propose, d'autre part, une continuation de l'entreprise pour lui permettre d'atteindre enfin son second public, celui qui s'intéresse à une étude scientifique de ce corpus, en mettant à sa disposition pour des lectures transversales une concordance intégrale du Tēvāram, interactivement reliée aux explications mot à mot de V. M. Subramanya Ayyar.
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