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2nd Tamilex Conference, 13–14 February 2025Words & What They Mean
10 February 2025
Photo: Roland Ferenczi
École française d'Extrême-Orient / Institut français de Pondichéry
The 2nd Tamilex conference will take place in Pondicherry, 13–14 February 2025, following a three-day workshop with intensive training in text encoding and in manuscript transcription. The second part will be two days of presentations. The keynote speech will be presented by Y. Subbarayalu & G. Vijayavenugopal, on their work creating a dictionary of Tamil epigraphy. Following that, there will be four half-day panels on different topics. After two years of intensive lexicographical work, we intend to take a step back in order to have a good long look at what has been achieved and at the things that ought to be achieved within the Tamilex project and beyond.
2nd Tamilex conference: On words and what they mean
13–14 February, 2025 École française d’Extrême-Orient, Pondicherry, & online
The conference will take place in person and online; some speakers will be presenting remotely.
Thursday, 13 February 2025 |
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9:00 |
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9:10 |
Welcome address |
Dominic Goodall & Margherita Trento |
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9:10 |
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10:10 |
Keynote presentation on epigraphic Tamil |
Y. Subbarayalu & G. Vijayavenugopal |
Lexicography |
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10:10 |
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10:50 |
On the source material and organizational principles of the சாந்தி சாதனா 2000 ‘திவாகரம் - பிங்கலம் - சூடாமணி அகராதி அட்டவணை’ |
Jean-Luc Chevillard |
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10:50 |
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11:10 |
Coffee break |
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11:10 |
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11:50 |
The Making of a Tamil Manipravalam Dictionary |
Suganya Anandakichenin |
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11:50 |
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12:30 |
Introduction and Semantic Evolution of Selected Words in the Kalittokai in Caṅkam Literature |
S. Saravanan |
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12:30 |
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14:00 |
Lunch |
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(Ir)realia |
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14:00 |
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14:40 |
From sheep to bird: The semantic history of the word varuṭai |
Roland Ferenczi |
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14:40 |
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15:20 |
Measuring the Minute: An Examination of the Fractional System in Tamil Epigraphy |
Renato Dávalos & Vigneshwaran Muralidaran |
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15:20 |
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15:40 |
Coffee break |
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15:40 |
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16:20 |
The poetics of doors, in Old Tamil and beyond |
Charles Li |
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16:20 |
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17:00 |
இலைமறை காய் (unripe fruit hidden behind the leaves) |
T. Rajeswari |
Friday, 14 February 2025 |
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Linguistics |
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9:30 |
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10:10 |
On the Use of iṉi (‘now’) with the So-called Past Tense |
Eva Wilden |
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10:10 |
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10:50 |
The polysemy of the verb kēḷ ‘to hear’, ‘to ask’ in the Naṟṟiṇai and in Modern Tamil |
Anna Smirnitskaya |
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10:50 |
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11:10 |
Coffee break |
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11:10 |
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11:50 |
Sonorant Gemination in Old Tamil and other Dravidian languages |
V. Ramprashanth |
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11:50 |
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12:30 |
Semantically vague noun modifiers in Old Tamil: can they be classified as intensifiers? |
Nikolay Gordiychuk |
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12:30 |
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14:00 |
Lunch |
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Semantics & Poetics |
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14:00 |
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14:40 |
Does ‘epic’ Tamil exist? |
Iona Macgregor & Neela Bhaskar |
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14:40 |
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15:20 |
Words, Grammar, Meaning and Implicature in the Tirukkuṟaḷ In light of Parimēlaḻakar’s Commentary |
K. Nachimuthu |
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15:20 |
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15:40 |
Coffee break |
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15:40 |
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16:20 |
What we talk about when we talk about mukkaṭ kūṭṭam |
Leo Rishi Nelson-Jones |
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16:20 |
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17:00 |
Verbs related to worship in first millennium Tamil |
Indra Manuel |
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19:00 |
Evening reception |
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For more information, see the abstracts book. If you would like to attend the conference online, please fill out this form.
