Proporcionar ao estudante visão geral da história, conceitos, metalinguagens e técnicas descritivas de duas disciplinas linguísticas desenvolvidas na Índia Antiga, a saber, vyākaraṇa (gramática), vyākaraṇa-darśana (filosofia da linguagem/gramática).
Panorama dos estudos linguísticos na Índia Antiga; fontes gramaticas pré-pāṇinianas; a Gramática de Pāṇini, história, estrutura e doutrinas; os comentadores de Pāṇini; fontes do pensamento especulativo sobre a linguagem pré-Bhartr̥hari; a obra de Bhartr̥hari, história, estrutura e doutrinas; os comentadores de Bhartr̥hari.
Introdução: Panorama dos estudos linguísticos na Índia Antiga. 1. Gramática 1.1 Fontes gramaticas pré-pāṇinianas. 1.2 A Gramática de Pāṇini, história, estrutura e principais doutrinas. 1.2.1 Os comentadores de Pāṇini: Kātyāyana, Patañjali e a Kāśikā 1.2.2 Desenvolvimentos medievais: Kaiyaṭa. 2. Filosofia da Gramática/Linguagem 2.1 Fontes do pensamento especulativo sobre a linguagem pré-Bhartr̥hari. 2.2 A obra de Bhartr̥hari, história, estrutura e principais doutrinas. 2.2.1 Os comentadores de Bhartr̥hari: Vākyapadīya-vr̥tti, -ṭīkā & Helārāja. 2.2.2 Desenvolvimentos medievais: Mandana-miśra.
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