I'd just like to add that my curt tone is just because I'm answering
a pile of e-mails, not that I wish to be unfriendly. (I just noticed
it could look like that, when I saw it pop up in my mailbox). Thanks
for the interesting questions. I suspect that de Silva's book can
include some dodgy syntax, since there are a lot of sentences made up
from scratch which aren't based on real specimens (from the canon).