Kapil Muni Tiwary
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| Born | Nainijor-Bishupur village, Bhojpur District, Bihar |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
| Occupation | Linguist |
Kapil Muni Tiwary (born 1932) is a former professor and head of the department of Linguistics and Literature at Patna University[1] and currently a professor of English in Yemen.[2]
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 is 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]
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.[5]
Editor
Tiwary was one of the editors of a bi-annual journal of social sciences and humanities, Explorations in 1987-88.[6][7] His article, Caste-Conflict: A View from Bhojpur, was published in Volume I, No. I of Exploration in 1987.[8]
He 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.[9][10][11][12]
References
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External links
- Kapil Muni Tiwary at Open Library
- Journal of Communication Practices – Previous Issues
- Tiwary, K.M. (1978). "Tuneful Weeping: A Mode of Communication" Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies.
