George Cardona | |
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| Born | June 3, 1936 New York City, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Years active | Early 1960s ‒ Present |
| Known for | Scholarship in Indo-European, Indo-Aryan, Vedic, Vyākaraṇan, Pāṇinian, and general historical linguistics |
| Title | Professor Emeritus of Linguistics |
| Board member of | President of the American Oriental Society (1989-1990) |
| Academic background | |
| Education |
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| Thesis | Indo-European Thematic Aorists (1960) |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul Thieme |
| Influences | Pāṇini, Paul Thieme, Pt. Jagannath S. Pade Shastri, Pt. Ambika Prasad Upadhyaya, Pt. K.S. Krishnamurti Shastri, Pt. Raghunatha Sharma[1] |
| Academic work | |
| Era | Contemporary |
| Discipline | Linguistics |
| Sub-discipline | Indology and Indian linguistics |
| Main interests | Pāṇinian linguistics; Sanskrit grammar and culture |
| Notable works | Studies in Indian grammarians, I: The method of description reflected in the śivasūtras (1969);[2] Pāṇini: A Survey of Research (1976);[3] Pāṇini: His work and its traditions (1988);[4] Recent Research in Pāṇinian Studies (1999)[5] |
| Influenced | Madhav M. Deshpande, Peter E. Hook, Peter M. Scharf [1] |
| Website | ling |
George Cardona (/kɑːrˈdoʊnə/; born June 3, 1936) is an American linguist, Indologist, Sanskritist, and scholar of Pāṇini. Described as "a luminary" in Indo-European, Indo-Aryan, and Pāṇinian linguistics since the early sixties,[6]: ix Cardona has been recognized as the leading Western scholar of the Indian grammatical tradition (vyākaraṇa) and of the great Indian grammarian Pāṇini.[7]: 902 [8]: 269 He is currently Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and South Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.[9][10] Cardona was credited by Mohammad Hamid Ansari, the vice president of India, for making the University of Pennsylvania a "center of Sanskrit learning in North America",[11] along with Professors W. Norman Brown, Ludo Rocher, Ernest Bender, Wilhelm Halbfass, and several other Sanskritists.
- ^ a b Cardona, George, Madhav Deshpande, and Peter Edwin Hook. Indian Linguistic Studies : Festschrift in Honor of George Cardona. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidess Publishers, 2002. Print.
- ^ Cardona, George. 1969. Studies in Indian grammarians, I: The method of description reflected in the śivasūtras. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series, 59.1, p. 48
- ^ Cardona, George. Pāṇini, a survey of research (Trends in linguistics, state of the art reports, 6). The Hague: Mouton, 1976, pp. xvi, 384
- ^ Cardona, George. Pāṇini: His work and its traditions. Part I: General introduction and background. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1988, pp. xxiv, 671
- ^ Cardona, George. Recent Research in Pāṇinian Studies. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1999, pp. xi, 372
- ^ Deshpande, Madhav M.; Hook, Peter E. (2002). "Preface". In Cardona, George; Deshpande, Madhav M.; Hook, Peter E. (eds.). Indian Linguistic Studies: Festschrift in Honor of George Cardona. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidess Publishers. pp. ix–xii. ISBN 8120818857.
- ^ Joseph, Brian D. (2006). "Review of Indian Linguistic Studies: Festschrift in Honor of George Cardona". Language. 83: 4: 902–904. doi:10.1353/lan.2006.0206. S2CID 143525202.
- ^ Pollock, Sheldon (2012). "Sanskrit Studies in the United States". In Tripathi, Radhavallabh (ed.). Sixty Years of Sanskrit Studies, 1950-2010. New Delhi: Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan and D.K. Printworld. pp. 259–310. ISBN 9788124606308.
- ^ "UPenn Department of Linguistics". www.ling.upenn.edu.
- ^ Dasti, Matthew R.; Bryant, Edwin F., eds. (2014). Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy. United States of America: Oxford University Press. pp. xiii–xiv. ISBN 9780199922758.
- ^ Ansari, Mohammad Hamid (November 21, 2016). "Case for studying Sanskrit makes itself, and there is no need to invoke higher spiritual incentives in order to justify this: Vice President: Gives away ICCR World Sanskrit Award 2015 & 2016". Retrieved April 6, 2017.
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