--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, George Bedell <gdbedell@...> wrote: Still, it is
overwhelmingly clear from comparing Sanskrit and Pali, on phonological, morphological or
syntactic grounds, that Sanskrit represents a historically prior stage of Indo-Aryan to Pali.
This is why in the accepted view Sanskrit is termed 'early Indo-Aryan' and Pali 'middle
Indo-Aryan'.

Hello,

Oberlies, Thomas. “Middle Indo-Aryan and (the) Vedic (Dialects) (Miscellanea Palica VII).”
Historische Sprachforschung 112 (1999): 39â€"57.

This may be of some interest to you.

tl