A great scholarly work on how grammatical cases are used in pali along with
all possible sub-divisions (acc of time, space, duration etc etc)
was edited and published by

HINUEBER, Oskar von: Studien zur Kasussyntax des Pali, besonders des Vinaya
Pitaka. München: Kitzinger, 1968

unfortunately, as you see, only in German...

with mettâ

Lennart

----- Original Message -----
From: "Caebhin Howell" <caebhin@...>
To: <Pali@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 6:11 AM
Subject: Re: Pali Grammar (Re: [Pali] Re: english grammar tip of the day)


> >The main thing lacking is an account of the grammatical cases which are
> >found in Pali but not in English (e.g. it won't tell you what 'ablative'
> >means).
>
> Perhaps we could compile a glossary/dictionary on Pali grammar.
>
> peace
>
> Ven Kumra
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> That would be great if it could be of use to both those trying to learn
> Pali, and those wishing to get a deeper grasp of the Dhamma. The concept
of
> words that have no modern and/or cultural equivalents often make the
> translated texts a little awkward for the reader. I have a copy of â?~The
> Seekerâ?Ts Glossary of Buddhismâ?T published by the Corporate Body of the
> Buddha Educational Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan. It has been the most
useful
> book I ever owned. But, without access to a native speaker who is also
very
> competent in the learnerâ?Ts language causes the language being learned to
> be less lively. Book knowledge can only go so far before a dead language
> really is lifeless. Nuances that should convey the total imagery become
as
> two dimensional as the page they are printed on.
>
> To further my point, I tried for a while to learn Gaelic. One word that
> popped up on a few occasions was â?~sumâ?T. It was defined in different
> dictionaries as a measure of land, as a pasture, and as other vague,
similar
> definitions. But until it was explained verbally, it had no clear meaning
> in my mind. And I doubt anyone really knows what a runrig is. Iâ?Tm sure
> there is a lot in Pali texts that Iâ?Tm missing or misinterpreting too.
>
>
>
>
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> 88" . "88
> (| -_- |)
> O\ = /O
> ____/`---'\____
> .' \\| |// `.
> / \\||| : |||// \
> / _||||| -:- |||||_ \
> | | \\\ - /'| | |
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> \ .-\__ `-. -'__/-. /
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> \ \ `-. \_\_`. _.'_/_/ -' _.' /
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> Yours in the Dhamma `=--=-'
> Kevin
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