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Item Merit and Demerit of the Grammatical Method of Vīracōliyam(University of Kelaniya, 2015) Rajaratnam, K.Vīracōliyam is one of the major treatises on Tamil grammar,prosody and poetics. It has been widely accepted that this treatise is assignable to the 11th century A.D. Chronologically Vīracōliyam is the second grammar belonging to the Tamil grammatical tradition with Tolkāppiyam (1st century AD) as its sole extant antecedent. Vīracōliyam came a thousand years after Tolkāppiyam ; when the whole language situation and the approach to Tamil grammatical description had changed. The author of Vīracōliyam observed these changes and marked the beginning of distinct trend in Tamil grammatical thought. However he was taken over by the Sanskrit models and failed to explain the basic taxonomic differences between Sanskrit and Tamil. Therefore Vīracōliyam is considered as a spoilt work and lost its place in the Tamil grammatical tradition. However there are some special features in this grammar. Vīracōliyam introduced a new grammatical thought in the Tamil grammatical tradition. Tolkāppiyam concentrates only on literary Tamil. However Vīracōliyam has drawn its attention also to the spoken Tamil. Furthermore it is the only grammar had written by a Buddhist scholar in the Tamil grammatical tradition.Therefore this paper attempts to explore the merit and demerit of the grammatical method of Vīracōliyam.Item Language Planning and Future of the National Languages of Sri Lanka(University of Kelaniya, 2015) Premaratna, C.D.H.M.Language planning is a deliberate effort to influence the function, structure, or acquisition of languages or language variety within a speech community. It is often associated with government planning. The goals of language planning differ depending on the nation or organization, but generally include making planning decisions and possibly changes for the benefit of communication. Planning or improving effective communication can also lead to other social changes such as language shift or assimilation. This research paper discusses how English is established as a Link Language and how Sinhala and Tamil National Languages are given the Official Language status as described in the 13th amendment of the Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka of 1987, and how that affects the future of the language planning in Sri Lanka.The problems are studied through a description of the language situation and language policy in Sri Lanka. This study is an attempt to relate the political agenda underlying its introduction and contents originating from political, national, religious and other ideologies. Data will be analysed in three areas: the language situation, the language planning ideologies of the language policy makers and ideas of the linguists. Information about the language situation includes the essential social, political, religious and economic structures which condition the language policy and which constitute the setting for its implementation. Data will be collected from official reports. This study will view English as a Link language affecting the allocation of different functions of varieties in a community including the medium of education and how that affects the use of National Languages in such a function of varieties in future. Finally it examines the extent to which language policy in Sri Lanka is aimed at achieving multilingual problems.