Hello, Doug!

DB> Would it be possible to send me Lily de Silva's 'Pali Primer' with answer
DB> key as well, if you would be so kind?

I have sent you a copy, and to all others who asked for it.

DB> Does Paali have sandhi between words, as does Samskrta? (It would seem not,
DB> from what I've seen, but I just want to check that out.)

Yes, Pali has sandhi. It is described in detail in paragraphs 17-27 of
Pali Grammar by Charles Duroiselle
http://www.metta.lk/pali-utils/index.html

DB> In which script is Paali most usually written? I am familiar with the
DB> Devanagari script, but I've seen Sri Lankan websites where the Paali is
DB> written in Sinhala script. *Is* there a "normal" script for Paali,

There's no standard script.

DB> or is it
DB> simply written in whatever script the writer normally uses, i.e. Sinhala
DB> script for Sinhala-speakers, Devanagari script for speakers of
DB> Samskrta/Hindi-speakers, and presumably Roman script for speakers of
DB> European languages?

Indeed it is written in local scripts. One can only guess what were
the 'early' scripts.

There's a description of interesting early manuscript in Gandhari
language at http://depts.washington.edu/ebmp/fragments.html

And you can find a lot of Pali introductory information and links at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pali/files/

Metta,
Dimitry