George Cardona
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Professor Emeritus George Cardona |
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| Born | June 3, 1936 (81 years old) New York City, NY |
| Residence | Northeastern United States |
| Nationality | American |
| 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) |
| Awards | Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto (1971-1972); Collitz Professor at the summer institute of the Linguistic Society of America at the University of Illinois (1978); American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1984‒Present); American Philosophical Society (1997‒Present); World Sanskrit Award (2016) |
| Website | www |
| Academic background | |
| Education | BA, New York University (1956); MA, Yale University (1958); PhD, Yale University (1960) |
| Thesis title | Indo-European Thematic Aorists |
| Thesis year | 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 | Linguist |
| Sub discipline | Indology and Indian linguistics |
| Doctoral students | Kapil Muni Tiwary (1968), Dayashankar Mohanlal Joshi (1969), Madhav Murlidhar Deshpande (1972), Peter E. Hook (1973), Jayashree Achut Gune (1974), George E. Dunkel (1976), Rajam Ramamurti (1981), Vijay Gambhir (1981), Sarah Kimball (1983), Roland Bergdahl (1987), Elliot M. Stern (1988), Peter M. Scharf (1990), Jon Yamashita (1998), Masato Kobayashi (2000), Paul Kingsbury (2002), Walker Trimble (2005), Susan Blair Das (2006), Emilie Aussant (2016) |
| 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 |
George Cardona ([dʒɔːɹdʒ kɑɹdonʌ]; 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, Cardona has been recognized as the leading Western scholar of the Indian grammatical tradition (vyākaraṇa) and of the great Indian grammarian Pāṇini. 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.
George Cardona was born in New York, NY on June 3, 1936.
Cardona obtained his BA from New York University in 1956, and his MA and PhD degrees from Yale in 1958 and 1960, respectively. His dissertation advisor at Yale was Paul Thieme, who worked primarily in Vedic studies and Sanskrit grammar. Cardona's PhD was in linguistics with a specialization in Indo-European ‒ by this time he had already begun studying Sanskrit grammar (vyākaraṇa) and related areas (especially nyāya and mīmāṃsā). In 1962–63, not long after receiving his PhD, Cardona went to Gujarat state, India, where he worked on his A Gujarati reference grammar, as well as furthering his understanding of Sanskrit and Indian grammatical tradition. While in India, Cardona studied under the tutelage of native Indian gurus, including Jagannath S. Pade Shastri (his first Indian mentor and to whom his most significant work, Pāṇini: His Work and its Traditions, is dedicated), Ambika Prasad Upadhyaya, K.S. Krishnamurti Shastri, and Raghunatha Sharma.
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