Thanks Dmytro;

I read in the intro to one version of Duroiselle's book floating around that
the sometimes frightening array of inflexions you find in Duroiselle's
grammar, are distributed across certain types of texts (for example,
certain noun case markers are found only in Jatakas), or at least that is
what I infer from this quote:

"Duroiselle made extensive use of the Jâtakas and post-canonical Pâli
literature in forming his idea of the "correct" use of the language. Thus,
e.g., he lists many forms of declension and conjugation that are not
included in the tables of other authors. This can be very useful as a
scholar's reference, but it can also be more confusing (or even slightly
deceptive) for a beginner."
http://www.pratyeka.org/duroiselle/

I wonder whether chronology can be induced from these other features
too. Too bad Kingsbury's whole dissertation is not available, at least
easily.

Do you know of a bibliography of Pali linguistics?

With metta,
Jon


--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Dmytro O. Ivakhnenko" <aavuso@...>
wrote:

>
> Dear Jon,
>
> > Paul Kingsbury (Penn) PropBank: the next stage of Treebank

and

> > Inducing a Chronology of the Pali Canon
>
> You can find the materials at:
>
> http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kingsbur/
>
> See also:
>
> http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-ENG/bcl.htm
>
> With metta, Dmytro
>