PS the citation in my previous message should have "sanscrites" with a "c"
On Thu, 4 Aug 2022 22:45:18 +0200 Satyanad Kichenassamy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Colleague, Dear All, > > There are many examples in French (règles de liaison). In examples with an > inserted t (ex.: y a-t-il) the modification is reflected in writing. > > A recent thesis I happened to find is "Les phénomènes de sandhi dans l’espace > gallo-roman" https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00807535/document > > You may want to give the example of tone sa.mdhi in Chinese (ex: 不要 bu4 yao4 > becomes bu2 yao4 -- the number indicates the tone). This is not indicated in > writing. > > It may also be appropriate to stress that the discovery of Sanskrit grammar, > and of sa.mdhi in particular, played an important role in clarifying Greek > and Latin grammar. As Barthélémy Saint-Hilaire says, "Le sandhi grec nous > apparaît pour ce qu'il est réellement, pour un débris d'un édifice plus > complet, que nous contemplons sans ruines et sans lacunes dans la langue et > la grammaire sanskrites." (see page 354 in his paper in Journal des Savants > 136 (June 1859) 348-360 -- saw it on Google, I do not have the pdf). > > Best, > > Satyanad Kichenassamy > > On Thu, 4 Aug 2022 15:51:43 -0400 > Harry Spier via INDOLOGY <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dear list members, > > I need to give a brief introductory talk to english speakers, not > > linguistic or sanskrit students, but english speakers who chant sanskrit > > mantras and shlokas. > > I thought I'd briefly talk about and give examples of: > > 1) How sanskrit is very independent of word order. > > 2) How sanskrit uses case endings > > 3) How sandhi is widespread in sanskrit andi is also part of the spelling > > in sanskrit . > > > > I'd like to give examples of sandhi in english to to make the concept of > > sandhi more clear. The examples I know of are: > > 1) final "s" > > "books" pronounced as "books" but "bags" pronounced as "bagz". > > 2) final "d" > > "glazed" pronounced as "glaizd" but "placed" pronounced as "plaist" > > > > It would be helpful if someone could give me other examples of sandhi in > > english. Not final "s" or final "d" > > > > Also is it true that most (all?) languages have sandhi ? > > > > Is sandhi expressed in the spelling (and not just the pronounciation) of > > any non-Indian languages? > > > > Thanks, > > Harry Spier > > > > Thanks, > > Harry Spier > > > -- > ********************************************** > Satyanad KICHENASSAMY > Professor of Mathematics > Laboratoire de Mathématiques de Reims (CNRS, UMR9008) > Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne > F-51687 Reims Cedex 2 > France > Web: https://www.normalesup.org/~kichenassamy > ********************************************** > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology -- Satyanad Kichenassamy <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list [email protected] https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology
