Indian Linguistic Studies : Festschrift in Honor of George Cardona/edited by Madhav M. Deshpande and Peter E. Hook. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 2002, xxvi, 384 p., figs., $39. ISBN 81-208-1885-7.

Contents: Preface. George Cardona bibliography. I. Sanskrit grammatical theory: 1. How names work in grammar/James Benson. 2. Some observations on the sthanasambandha/E.G. Kahrs. 3. Some later argument on iko yan aci/Robert A. Hueckstedt. 4. Exegetics of Sanskrit grammar/Saroja Bhate. II. Karaka-studies: 6. Bhartrhari’s rule for unexpressed Karakas: the problem of control in classical Sanskrit/Brendan S. Gillon. 7. On P. 1.4.1–2: a reconsideration/S.D. Joshi and J.A.F. Roodbergen. 8. Panini, Vivaksa and Karaka-rule-ordering/Peter M. Scharf. 9. Karakas: direct and indirect relationships/Madhav M. Deshpande. III. Historical studies in grammatical traditions: 10. Two Buddhist grammarians: Candragomin and Jayaditya/Anna Radicchi. 11. The Candra-vyakarana: some questions/Johannes Bronkhorst. 12. Semantics in the history of South Asian thought: three observations on the emergence of semantics in the Sanskrit tradition/Jan E.M. Houben. 13. Notes on the Avestan grammatical tradition/William Malandra. 14. Making of Panini/K. Meenakshi. IV. Lexical studies: 15. Sanskrit asina/G.B. Palsule. 16. Does Patanjali on Panini 5.2.9 refer to chess?/M.A. Mehendale. 17. Once again on the forms of oath in classical India (I): in connection with Katyayana’s vt. 8 "sapa upalambhane" on Panini 1.3.2/Toru Yagi. 18. Rigvedic sim and im/Stephanie W. Jamison. V. Cultural studies: 19. Some remarks on the final verses of the Kamasutra/Albrecht Wezler. 20. The language of the physician/Harmut Scharfe. VI. Modern Indian languages: 21. Some Toda developments of Proto-Dravidian/M.B. Emeneau. 22. How to be sarcastic in Hindi-Urdu/Peter Edwin Hook and Kusum Jain. 23. Gender and number in Dravidian/BH. Krishnamurti. [Article No. 5 is in Hindi]

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