Interprétations du discours métalinguistique

Candotti, Maria Piera

doi:10.36253/88-8453-451-8

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“…The name kittima - nāma , which designates proper names that are artificially made by a namer, may be partly reminiscent of Sanskrit kṛtrima , which is used in grammar to designate grammatical technical terms (Abhyankar 1986: 127; see Candotti's (2005: 72–80) detailed discussion).…”

Section: The Sources Of the Models: Pali Canon And Sanskrit Grammarmentioning

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The classification of nouns (nāma) in Buddhaghosa

Visigalli

2022

Bull. Sch. Orient. Afr. stud.

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This paper provides the first detailed analysis of the models for classing nouns found in the early Pali exegetical texts traditionally assigned to the fifth-century monk-scholar Buddhaghosa. It identifies three fourfold models and argues that: (a) each model has a distinctive distribution; (b) the original occurrence in each model serves a specific purpose, which can be identified through studying the relation between these original occurrences and their respective context; (c) Buddhaghosa did not invent these models but repurposed pre-existing models to fit specific exegetical needs; (d) Buddhaghosa's reuse of these inherited models is consistent with his view expressed elsewhere that Pali is a sacred, perfect language; and (e) in developing these models, the unknown authors combined influences from the Pali canon and Sanskrit grammatical sources. Finally, I briefly consider whether studying the models sheds new light on the early history of Pali grammar.

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Section: The Sources Of the Models: Pali Canon And Sanskrit Grammarmentioning

confidence: 99%