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Books and CD-Roms

• Chevillard, J.-L., 2008, Companion Volume to the Cēṉāvaraiyam on Tamil Morphology and Syntax (Le commentaire de Cēṉāvaraiyar sur le Collatikāram du Tolkāppiyam : Volume 2)
  [English Introduction, glossaire analytique, appendices] Collection Indologie 84.2, Institut Français de Pondichéry/ Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient (526 p.) ISBN 9782855396699
  [See item 3 on IFP january 2008 publications page]
• V.M. Subramanya Aiyar, Chevillard, J.-L., S.A.S. Sarma, Digital Tēvāram. Kaṇiṉit Tēvāram., Collection Indologie n° 103, IFP / EFEO, 2007
  [CD-ROM], Language : Tamil, English
  ISBN 2-85539-663-8 (EFEO). ISSN 0073-8352 (IFP)
  [See REVIEW in INDOLOGICA TAURINENSIA (The Journal of the International association of Sanskrit Studies [ISSN: 1023-3881]), Volume XXXIII, 2007)]
  [See short description]
  [See on-line version]
• Chevillard, Jean-Luc (Editor) & Wilden Eva (Associate Editor), with the collaboration of A. Murugaiyan, 2004, South Indian Horizon. Felicitation Volume for François Gros on the occasion of his 70th birthday, Publication du département d’Indologie N°94 (PDI n°94), IFP/EFEO (Institut Français de Pondichéry/ Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient) (xlvi + 652pp.)
  [ouvrage regroupant 41 contributions] Language: French, English, Tamil.
  ISBN 2-85539-630-1 (EFEO). ISSN 0073-8352 (IFP) [See catalogue]

Chapters in Books

• Chevillard, Jean-Luc, 2009a, « The Pantheon of Tamil grammarians : a short history of the myth of Agastya’s twelve disciples », pp.243-268, in Colas Gérard & Gerschheimer Gerdi, (Eds), Écrire et transmettre en Inde classique. Études thématiques N°23. École Française d'Extrême-Orient. Paris.
• Chevillard, Jean-Luc, 2009b, “The Metagrammatical Vocabulary inside the Lists of 32 Tantrayukti-s and its Adaptation to Tamil: Towards a Sanskrit-Tamil Dictionary”, pp. 71-132, in Wilden, Eva (Ed.), Between Preservation and Recreation: Proceedings of a workshop in honour of T.V. Gopal Iyer, Collection Indologie – 109, IFP/EFEO, Pondicherry.
• Chevillard, Jean−Luc (sous presse, fin 2009), "Elementary Grammatical Devices in Classical Tamil Grammar", pp.203−216, in Hummel, Pascale (ed.), Epilanguages, Beyond Idioms and Languages, Paris, Philologicum. (ISBN : 978−2−917741−15−3)
• Chevillard, J.-L., 2008, "The concept of ticaiccol in Tamil grammatical literature and the regional diversity of Tamil classical literature", in Kannan M. (Ed.), Streams of Language: Dialects in Tamil, French Institute of Pondicherry, Pondicherry, pp. 21-50.
  [[An updated version (2009/12/18) is available on HALSHS (Open Archives) and also downloadable HERE (576 KB)]]
• Chevillard, Jean-Luc, 2007, “Syntactic Duality in Classical Tamil Poems”, in Colin P. Masica (Ed.), Old and New Perspectives on South Asian Languages: Grammar and Semantics, MLBD Series in Linguistics Vol. 16, Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, pp. 177-210.
• CHEVILLARD J.−L, 2005, "Tamil Linguistic Tradition", in Keith BROWN (Editor), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (ELL2) (in 14 vol.), Elsevier Ltd.
• CHEVILLARD J.−L, 2005, "Caldwell, Robert (1814−1891)", in Keith BROWN (Editor), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (ELL2) (in 14 vol.), Elsevier Ltd.
• CHEVILLARD J.−L, 2005, "Kuiper, Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus (1907−2003)", in Keith BROWN (Editor), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (ELL2) (in 14 vol.), Elsevier Ltd.
• CHEVILLARD J.−L, 2005, "Ziegenbalg, Bartholomaeus (1682−1719)", in Keith BROWN (Editor), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (ELL2) (in 14 vol.), Elsevier Ltd.
• CHEVILLARD J.−L, 2005, "Beschi, Constanzo Guiseppe (1680−1747)", in Keith BROWN (Editor), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (ELL2) (in 14 vol.), Elsevier Ltd.
• CHEVILLARD J.−L, 2005, "Rajarajavarma, A.R. (1863−1918)", in Keith BROWN (Editor), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (ELL2), Elsevier Ltd.
• Chevillard, Jean-Luc, 2004, "Ideophones in Tamil: a historical perspective on the X-enal expressives, (Olikkuṟippu Āṟṟuppaṭai)", in Chevillard et Wilden, South Indian Horizon: Felicitation Volume for François Gros on the occasion of his 70th birthday, Publication du département d’Indologie N°94, Institut Français de Pondichéry. (pp. 407-433).
• Chevillard, Jean-Luc, 2003, "A proposal for the Digital Encoding of Palm-Leaf Tamil Manuscripts", pp. 105-116, in K. Kalyanasundaram & V. Krishnamoorthy (Eds.), Tamil Internet 2003, Conference Papers, sponsored by The Government of Tamil Nadu, Organized by Tamil Virtual University & Anna University, Supported by International Forum for Information Technology in Tamil (INFITT) & Kanithamizh Sangam.

Articles

• Chevillard, J.-L., 2007, « Le rôle de l'exemple dans l'argumentation: le cas de la littérature tamoule savante », in Langages, N° 166, Editions Armand Colin, Paris, pp. 32-46.
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• Chevillard, J.-L., Colombat, B., Fournier J.-M., Guillaume J.-P., & Lallot J., 2007, "L'exemple dans quelques traditions grammaticales (formes, fonctionnement, types)", in Langages, N° 166, Editions Armand Colin, Paris, pp. 5-31.
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• Chevillard, Jean-Luc, 2004: “Ideophones in Tamil: Historical Observations on the morphology of X-enal expressives.”
  [(Appeared in the january 2004 issue of the electronic journal Kôlam.

Recent presentations

• Chevillard, Jean-Luc, "Critical editions of Tamil works: exploratory survey and future perspectives", Presentation at the 8th Tamil Internet Conference jointly organized on 23-25 October 2009 by the IITS (Institute of Indology and Tamil Studies) and by INFITT (International Forum for Information Technology in Tamil) [Presentation is available on the INFITT web site (CLICK on entry "Presentations") and also downloadable HERE (938 KB)]]