বাংলা ব্যাকরণের প্রত্নতত্ত্ব ARCHAEOLOGY OF BANGLA GRAMMAR

বাংলা ব্যাকরণের প্রত্নতত্ত্ব ARCHAEOLOGY OF BANGLA GRAMMAR

 

Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay *

^ দেবপ্রসাদ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়

ABSTRACT

It is a  post-structural intervention in the realm of Bangla grammars (written in 19th. C. and in the first phase of 20th.  C.) by deploying post-colonial irrationality. The work shows process of appropriation of grammatical discourse under the colonial rule in Bengal. Non-discursive formation (like colonialism, nationalism etc.) and the discursive formation of Bangla Grammar written under the colonial rule are correlated.  The epistemological thresholds among vyaakarana, general grammar, philology, linguistics and their amalgamations are shown in a mimic and hybrid space.

·         If grammar is within the biological existence of Speaking/Hearing Subjects, why are you writing grammar? Speaking on speaking means meta-speaking and that is the project of vyaakarana, general grammar, philology and linguistics despite their fuzzy as well as determined thresholds. Grammatical orders of things are controlled/ appropriated/ approximated/codified by the statist and familial non-discursivity. Grammar is political action that codifies S/HS’s docile body. Text books of grammar were analyzed to show the affinities between statist constitution and the constitution of grammar.

Therefore, let us have an anti-grammar (=GrammEr)—a pedagogical praxis in unschooling.

·         Linear deterministic history of language is a nation statist project—a genealogical fantasy confirmed by pratyavijna.  Inanimate arbitrary signs are animated, a three-dimensional object—thus philology has become leisure class’s cup of tea. None talks about historicism.

Linear history of Bangla literature had overlapped with the “development” and “origin” of the Bangla language in the discourses of philologists and literary historians. Put why-question here as a connoisseur.

·         Compensatory lengthening or deaspiration  phenomena as described by Bengali philologists, are results of obsession with writing. Reduplication, as a term , tautologous. Relative degree of arbitrariness or switching over of sense organs in case of so-called icons, though was observed, were ignored. However large corpus was generated to show the autonomous status of imagined order: Nation state Bangla.

STRUCTURE OF THE PROJECT

1.      A Dream that subscribes nation statist imagination.

2.      Demanding Grammar (in the 19^th C. Bengal)

3.      In Search of Mother (Land and Language): (Nation) State of affairs

4.      Episteme in the 19^th. C. knowledge/power

5.      Institutionalizing Bangla

6.      Defining/extending (the border of) Bangla (A case of dispute with Oriya and Assamiya)

7.      Standardizing Bangla (n-glossia)

8.      Grammaticalizing Bangla (Discursive Formation of Bangla Grammar)

9.      Sunitikumar’s Psycho-Biography

10.   Anti-Grammar and Methodological issues

NEOLOGISM: Epistemological Amalgamation, allocurriculeme, n-glossia, anti-grammar= grammEr

For detailed discussion, kindly follow hyperlinks (blue-colored titles) 

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·         2009. “সরল রেখায় ইন্ডিকভাষা-ইতিহাস: সমস্যার ইতিহাস” (Linear History of Indic Language: Some Problems of Historiography). Ed. Chakroborty, Barun. Tomar sristrir pOth  (Acarya Sukumar Sen Commemoration Volume). Kolkata: Aparna Book Distributors. (pp. 448-71) ISBN 81-86036-79-2  Download (.pdf)

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·         1999. “Triglossia in Bangla”. Omkar N. Koul and P. Umarani ed. Sociolinguistics and Language Education (A Festschrift for Dr. D.P. Pattanayak). New Delhi: Creative. ISBN 81-86318-87-9.  Download (.pdf)

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COLOPHON: B. Ramakrishna Reddy, Probal Dasgupta