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Vol. 14:1/2 (1987) ► pp.89–138

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The influence of Pānini on Leonard Bloomfield

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Published online: 1 January 1987
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.14.1-2.11rog
Summary
Leonard Bloomfield’s synchronic grammatical works were heavily nfluenced by the sixth century B.C. Indian grammarian Pānini. Word for-mation, compounds, suppletion, zero, form-classes, and generality and specificity in Bloomfield’s Language, Eastern Ojibwa, and The Menomini Language are correlated with their counterparts in Pānini’s grammar of Sanskrit. Selections from a manuscript of Bloomfield’s translation and annotation of the Kasika, a traditional Sanskrit work on Pānini’s grammar, provide concrete evidence for the influence of Panini on Bloomfield.
Résumé
Les études grammaticales synchroniques de Leonard Bloomfield étaient profondément influencées par le grammairien indien Pānini, du sixième siècle avant Jésus-Christ. Dans le présent article on établit un parallélisme entre le traitement de la formation de mots, des mots composés, de la supplétion, du concept ‘zéro’, des classes de mots et de la distinction entre généralité et spécificité dans Language, Eastern Ojibwa et The Meno-mini Language de Bloomfield et leurs équivalents dans la grammaire sans-crite de Pānini. On donne ici des citations d’un manuscrit de Bloomfield contenant une traduction et une annotation de la Kāśikā, ouvrage Sanscrit traditionnel sur la grammaire de Pānini, et on prouve par la l’influence qu’a eu Panini sur Bloomfield.
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