Amrita Collected Papers by A M Ghatage

SR No.: 006968
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: Kasturbhai Lalbhai Smarak Nidhi Ahmedabad
Total Pages: 530
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 10 MB

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years, under the inspiring guidance of Dr. Katre, an intense activity of making the elements of modern linguistics better known to the younger scholars with the help of an eminent faculty of linguists drawn from all parts of the country and from outside. It also helped formulate more precise objectives of these studies and infused new life in the Linguistic Society of India, which has shown a phenomenal expansion during the last few years. A concerted effort was made to put linguistic studies on a firm basis in the academic activities of Indian Universities, and in this it was greatly helped by the Universities themselves and the Universities Grants Commission. There is hardly any doubt that in all these undertakings, the Project has met with conspicuous success, mainly due to the unfailing help from the senior linguists of the country, along with encouraging enthusiasm shown by the younger scholars. The Linguistic Society of India and a host of other academic bodies have taken a leading part in these activities due to the realisation that linguistic studies. have a vital and important role to play in our academic and national life. I need not go into the details of all this intense activity, as the two welldocumented reports published by the Linguistic Society of India, of the Conference of Vice-Chancellors and Linguistis and of the Blue-Print Committee. of the Society, give a clear and comprehensive picture of all these events and are surely known to all of you. We can thus look into the future with far greater confidence than was possible a couple of years ago, and we all rejoice in this rapid progress of linguistic studies in our country, as these interests are dear to our hearts. The work of a number of Summer Schools and Autumn. Seminars of Linguistics held all over the country has made this bright picture possible and has assured us of an equally bright future.
4. Before I proceed with the problems which inevitably arise with at rapid expansion of a subject, let me briefly report on the work done on Indian Linguistics during the last two years. This may help us realise the present status of the subject and the task ahead of us and may throw into bold relief some of the urgent needs of these studies, and the lines along which they may progress with profit and advantage. For obvious reasons, I may be permitted to make this report as brief as possible by confining myself to book-size publications. I must add a word of apology by pointing out that any omission in this matter is wholly due to the limitations of my interests. and lack of sufficient energy and industry needed to do this work thoroughly. On no account should an omission be considered as either significant or wilful or in any way reflecting on the intrinsic merits of those particular studies.
5. It may be convenient to survey the field of Indian Linguistics by