Presenting the ERC project MIRA

Suganya Anandakichenin

Manipravalam, the hybrid literary language that combines Sanskrit and Tamil, played a central role in the religious, intellectual, and cultural history of South India during the second millennium. While scholarship has traditionally focused on the highly theorized...

Morphology in Tamil Tense Stems

Nearly two centuries ago, Karl Graul classified Tamil verbs into seven classes, a scheme that’s still ubiquitously used today. Since Tamil is the Dravidian language with the richest literary history, Graul’s classes carry particular weight amongst the attested evidence in reconstructing the...

Out of the frying pan: Some rare gastronomic lexemes in Old Tamil

How did people cook food in ancient Tamil Nadu, and where did they do it? What kinds of food did they eat, and what ingredients did they use? This talk will explore some rare and difficult words in Old Tamil on this theme, and draw parallels between Tamil...