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Karen Thomson

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Email: kthomson@dircon.co.uk

2000 - . University of Edinburgh, UK. Affiliated researcher, Department of Asian Studies, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures.
M.A. 1977. University of Warwick, UK. English and Comparative Literature (specialising in problems of translation).
B.A. 1975. University of Bristol, UK. English with Greek.

Thomson, Karen. 2009. "A Still Undeciphered Text: How the scientific approach to the Rigveda would open up Indo-European Studies," and "A Still Undeciphered Text, continued: the reply to my critics." Journal of Indo-European Studies 37, 1 & 2. 1-47 and 59-88.
-----. 2005. "Why the Rigveda remains undeciphered: the example of puroḷā^́ś." General Linguistics 43. 39-59.
-----. 2005. "The decipherable Rigveda: tiróahnyam as an example." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 15, 1. 63-70.
-----. 2004. Sacred Mysteries: why the Rigveda has resisted decipherment. Times Literary Supplement March 26, 14-15.
-----. 2004. "The decipherable Rigveda: a reconsideration of vakṣáṇā." Indogermanische Forschungen 109. 112-139.
-----. 2001. "The Meaning and Language of the Rigveda. Rigvedic grā^́van as a test case." Journal of Indo-European Studies 29, 3 & 4. 295-349.
-----. 2001. "An Ancient Jigsaw." [Review of Manfred Mayrhofer, Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Part I] 1992-1996, and Alexander Lubotsky, A R̥gvedic Word Concordance 1997.] Times Literary Supplement February 16, 34.
-----. 2001. "The Evidence of the Copy." Old English Newsletter 35, 1. 27-33.
-----. 1993. "A short bibliography on eighteenth-century linguistics" [in] Jones, William, Sir. Discourses delivered at the Asiatick Society, 1785-1792. Routledge 1993. Pp. xiii-xxvi.

Thomson, Karen and Jonathan Slocum. 2004-2006. Ancient Sanskrit Online. A ten-lesson course on the language of the Rigveda, with an historical introduction. Linguistics Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin.
Thomson, Karen and Jonathan Slocum, eds. 2006. The Rigveda: Metrically Restored Text. [A corrected version of van Nooten and Holland, Rig Veda. A Metrically Restored Text. 1994.] Linguistics Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin.