How Tamil was described once again: towards an XML-encoding of the Grammatici Tamulici

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Issue		Histoire Epistémologie Langage Volume 39, Number 2, 2017 La grammaire sanskrite étendue


Page(s)		103 - 127
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/hel/2017390206
Published online		18 April 2018

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