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V.I. SUBRAMONIAM COMMEMORATION VOLUMES Vol. I: Studies on Dravidian - Crown ¼, pp. xx + 515, Rs. 1,280/- (US$ 110/-) Vol. II: Studies on Indian Languages and Cultures - pp. xx + 458, Crown ¼, Rs. 1,150/- (US$ 105/-) Phonetics and its Application to Different Areas - Demy 1/8, pp. 160, Rs. 200/ - (US$ 15/ -) IJDL Vol. 4 4 No. 2 Vol 39 No. 9 Website www.ijdl.org Email: [email protected] SEPTEMBER 2015 A MONTHLY OF DRAVIDIAN LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION OF INDIA RD 43 AICDL - A GRAND ACADEMIC EVENT CONTENTS rd (Continued from the last issue) 43 AICDL 1 The most significant and attention-grabbing event of Santhara and Va akkiruttal 2 rd Dictionary of a Different Mode 3 the 43 All India Conference of Dravidian Linguists was Professor V.I. Subramoniam Endowment Lecture . Ka ṇṇaki Worship in Kerala 3 Prof. K. 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The dfjkdkkdpaper dkkdktitled dfkdfkdf Contextualizing Multi-Word Expressions in English and Malayalam centered on the key issues of machine translation and the process of identifying and extracting multi-word expressions in English and Malayalam. The paper-presenter, V. Jayan, also talked of the rules and disambiguation patterns in English -Malayalam Machine -Aided Translation Systems. Please buy and recommend the publications of DLA and ISDL to others. DLA and ISDL publications are now available at special discount. 1 sdfjkdjfk dfjkdfjk dfjkdjfk dfjkjkdjfk dfjkdjfk dfjkdkkd dkkdk Website: www.ijdl.org dfkdfkdfDLA News jksdfjksdfjlk Vol. 39 September sdfjksdjlfk 2015 dfjk sdfjkdjfk dfjkdfjk E-mail: [email protected] dfjkdjfk dfjkjkdjfk dfjkdjfk dfjkdkkd dkkdk dfkdfkdf j ksdfjksdfjlk sdfjksdjlfk dfjk sdfjkdjfk dfjkdfjk dfjkdjfk 4343 In the paper, Cyber Terminology in Malayalam: The Tamil Sangam classics (300 B.C. - Cognition and Translation , C. Hussain examined the A.D. 300) give the details of a ritual followed by cyber terminology for communicating in the social media the ancient people of Tami akam (present Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Pondicherry) known by the in Malayalam from a cognitive linguistics perspective. He argued that cyber terminology is conceptual in name Va akkiruttal . A follower of this ritual nature and its features cannot be translated into the decides to end his life before normal death by source language. He also observed that conventionalized undertaking fast unto death by adopting a sitting metaphors (such as internet, mouse, website etc.) and position facing north. The people who invite the conceptual metaphors are widely used in the cyber death by va akkiruttal are considered to be register. courageous ones, as they gave up several privileges. The belief is that they will be received in all pomp ONE THOUSAND SAVE NOW RUPEES BY BECOMING A LIFE-MEMBER OF DRAVIDIAN LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION. LIFE-MEMBERSHIP FEE IS ONLY Rs. 2,000/- (US$ 250/-) AT PRESENT, BUT FROM 1 ST JANUARY 2016, IT WILL BE Rs. 3,000/ - (US$ 450/ -). SO PLEASE HURRY UP ! Jisha P. Jayan explored syntactic and semantic The belief is that they will be received in all pomp level issues of Malayalam-Tamil machine translation and gaiety by the Gods when they reach heaven. which is playing a dominant role in Natural Language Pu an ānūu, the Sangam Classic, gives Processing. She presented the differences between the details of death undertaken by two kings by Malayalam and Tamil which lead to the problems in fasting, for different reasons. Poet Kalattalaiyar in transferring some of the words and concepts. his poem (Pu am 65) praises the Chera king In the paper, E-Dictionaries in Tamil - An Perum Cheral Athan, a valiant king, who on Overview , D. Mano elaborated electronic dictionaries account of premeditated wound on his back now available in Tamil. They are of two forms: offline inflicted on him in the battle of Venni by his rival and online and of these the latter is widely used the Chola king Karikal, felt ashamed and with sword in his hand, starved himself to death by through Internet and mobile phones. Va akkiruttal . The people generally believed that After the presentation of the papers, the main only a coward who flees from the battlefield will issues focused by them were hotly debated. Prof. N. get wounded in the back and that may be the Rajasekharan Nair thanked the paper-presenters and reason for Perum Cheral Athan to end his life. concluded the session with his remarks. Poet Vennikkuyattiyar (Pu am 67) mentioning [To be continued] this episode said in an ironical way that the S. Raja & K.N. Geethakumari defeated in this case was more glorious than the victorious. THE TWO ANCIENT PRACTICES: SANTHARA – VA AKKIRUTTAL Kopperum Chola, the victorious king, was famous for the gifts he gave to the bards. He also The Rajasthan High Court declared (August patronised dancers with generosity. He used the 2015) that the practice of santhara followed by Jains is authority of his rod only in accordance with a form of suicide and therefore an offence punishable precepts praised by the righteous learned on the under the Indian Penal Code. This order has since been subject. He sheltered Brahmins