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Words Can Mean Anything
A Lexicographic Volume in Honour of Jean-Luc Chevillard
Collection : Collection Indologie
Collection's number: 169
Editor: Anandakichenin (Suganya), Bhaskar (Neela), Muru (Cristina), Trento (Margherita)
Edition: EFEO - Coéditions, Institut français de Pondichéry (IFP)
Publication date: 2026
Status : Available
20,00 €
ISBN-13 : 9782855391366
ISSN : 0073-8352
Width : 17 cm
Height : 24 cm
Weight : 0.92 kg
Number of pages : 517
Distributor : EFEO Diffusion, EFEO Pondichéry Contact : shanti@efeo-pondicherry.org
Geography : India
Language : French, English, Tamil
Place : Pondichéry
Support : Papier
Description :
517 p., English, Tamil, French
ISBN EFEO : 9782855391366
ISBN IFP : 9788184702620
Collection Indologie n˚ 169
NETamil series n°11
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About the editor
Anandakichenin (Suganya)
Suganya Anandakichenin (PhD, Universität Hamburg, 2015) is an Indologist specializing in Tamil and Manipravalam literature, Śrīvaiṣṇava traditions, lexicography, manuscript studies, and textual transmission. She received her PhD from the University of Hamburg and is the author of three monographs and numerous scholarly publications. She currently leads the ERC-funded MIRA project at the University of Hamburg.
Bhaskar (Neela)
Neela Bhaskar (PhD, Universität Hamburg, 2024) is a postdoctoral researcher with the TAMILEX project. She is currently preparing a critical edition and translation of the Cilappatikāram and its two medieval commentaries. Her research interests also include Perumpaṟṟa Puliyūr Nampi’s Tiruviḷaiyāṭal Purāṇam, the Mackenzie Collection, and the history of performing arts in South India.
Muru (Cristina)
Cristina Muru is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Tuscia. Her research focuses on historical language contact, missionary grammars, the history of language science, and Tamil studies. She has worked extensively on early Jesuit descriptions of Tamil, language contact in India and the Mediterranean, archival materials, and fieldwork among the Paniya of the Nilgiris.
Trento (Margherita)
Margherita Trento (PhD University of Chicago, 2020) is associate professor in the history of South India at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and head of the Indology Department at the French Institute of Pondicherry. She has written a monograph on the history of Catholicism in early modern Tamil Nadu, and she is now researching the history of Saivism in the same period.
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