Jeyaraj, Daniel (2021) Tamil Grammars by Germans: Grammatica Damulica (1716) and its Successors. The Rising Sun. (Accepted for Publication)
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Abstract
Tamil grammar governs morphology, syntax, and semantics on the one hand and the proper use of nouns, verbs, voices, and their meanings on the other. It reflects aspects of Tamil society, culture, history and religions.
Young children learn it as they grow among the Tamil people. By contrast, adults belonging to a different cultural or national background learn Tamil differently. Their nuanced
understanding combines elements of their native upbringing and of their new language. Merchants engaged in trade transcending cultural boundaries, families with relatives living or working in different cultural settings, travellers, religious missionaries, and a few colonial administrators have been in the forefront of learning and propagating the languages and customs of other people. This article demonstrates how Germans, mostly Christian missionaries, learnt, perceived and presented Tamil grammar to their contemporaries from the sixteenth century onward.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information and Comments: | This is the Author's Original Manuscript of an article accepted on 31st October 2021 for publication in The Rising Sun magazine [copyright The Rising Sun, Chennai, India] |
| Keywords: | Tamil grammar Tamil culture Tamil history German missionaries Languages and customs |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Creative Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities |
| Depositing User: | John Miller |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Dec 2021 11:34 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Dec 2024 15:24 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3446 |
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