I too am interested about what Zeb brought up, and was hoping that someone could offer some good answers.

So when Robert Didham wrote:

>Thomas Oberlies: Paali. A Grammar of the Language of the Theravaada
>Tipi.tika. Berlin, de Gruyter 2001.

I checked it out at Amazon.com. It cost $142.25! That's RM540.55 almost a month's wage of a laborer here.

If you don't mind, Robert, could you give us a brief answer to Zeb's question based on Oberlies' book?