George Cardona
George Cardona | |
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| Born | June 3, 1936 New York City, U.S. |
| Years active | Early 1960s ‒ Present |
| Known for | Scholarship in Indo-European, Indo-Aryan, Vedic, Vyākaraṇan, Pāṇinian, and general historical linguistics |
| Title | Professor Emeritus of Linguistics |
| Board member of | President of the American Oriental Society (1989-1990) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | |
| Thesis | Indo-European Thematic Aorists (1960) |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul Thieme |
| Influences | Pāṇini, Paul Thieme, Pt. Jagannath S. Pade Shastri, Pt. Ambika Prasad Upadhyaya, Pt. K.S. Krishnamurti Shastri, Pt. Raghunatha Sharma |
| Academic work | |
| Era | Contemporary |
| Discipline | Linguistics |
| Sub-discipline | Indology and Indian linguistics |
| Main interests | Pāṇinian linguistics; Sanskrit grammar and culture |
| Notable works | Studies in Indian grammarians, I: The method of description reflected in the śivasūtras (1969); Pāṇini: A Survey of Research (1976); Pāṇini: His work and its traditions (1988); Recent Research in Pāṇinian Studies (1999) |
| Influenced | Madhav M. Deshpande, Peter E. Hook, Peter M. Scharf |
| Website | ling |
George Cardona (/kɑːrˈdoʊnə/; born June 3, 1936) is an American linguist, Indologist, Sanskritist, and scholar of Pāṇini. Described as "a luminary" in Indo-European, Indo-Aryan, and Pāṇinian linguistics since the early sixties,: ix Cardona has been recognized as the leading Western scholar of the Indian grammatical tradition (vyākaraṇa) and of the great Indian grammarian Pāṇini.: 902 : 269 He is currently Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and South Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Cardona was credited by Mohammad Hamid Ansari, the vice president of India, for making the University of Pennsylvania a "center of Sanskrit learning in North America", along with Professors W. Norman Brown, Ludo Rocher, Ernest Bender, Wilhelm Halbfass, and several other Sanskritists.