Kapil Muni Tiwary

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Kapil Muni Tiwary
K M Tiway at Patel Nagar Patna July 2011.jpg
Born1932 (1932)
Nainijor-Bishupur village, Bhojpur District, Bihar
Died26 April 2021(2021-04-26) (aged 88–89)
Nationality Indian
Alma mater University of Pennsylvania
Occupation Linguist

Kapil Muni Tiwary (1932 – 26 April 2021) was an Indian professor and head of the department of Linguistics and Literature at Patna University [1] and a professor of English in Yemen. [2]

Contents

Tiwary published many articles in Yemen Times Newspaper during the period 2000/2004. His articles were about Indian loan words into Arabic and vice versa.

Biography

Kapil Muni Tiwary was born in Nainijor village in the Bhojpur District of Bihar, India. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966 with a dissertation on grammar and phonology, Comparative reconstruction of Indo-Iranian sounds: On the basis of 'An Avesta grammar in comparison with Sanskrit, part 1' by A. V. Williams Jackson .

Tiwary was a scholar of South Asian languages. He has published on such topics as echo words in Bhojpuri and has argued that echo-word constructions (in which "a word is repeated without its initial consonant, sometimes with a vowel change") can function as a kind of secret language. [3] He coined the term "institutionalized weeping" in a study of weeping among Tamil women. [4]

Tiwary died on 26 April 2021. [5]

Books

Tiwary's first book, Panini's description of Sanskrit nominal compounds, was published by Janaki Prakashan, Patna in 1984. Another book, Language Deprivation and the socially disadvantaged: with special reference to Bihar, was published by Janaki Prakashan in 1994. [6] This book was an outcome of a project of Indian Council of Social Science Research on which he was working in the eighties. [7]

Editor

Tiwary was one of the editors of a bi-annual journal of social sciences and humanities, Explorations in 1987–88. [8] [9] His article, Caste-Conflict: A View from Bhojpur, was published in Volume I, No. I of Exploration in 1987. [10]

Tiwary also edited an anthology of English prose, Aspects of English prose: an anthology, with R.C. Prasad in 1986.

Linguist

His articles and books on various branches of linguists have been of special interest for the scholars in India and abroad. [11] [12] [13] [14]

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References

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