Dear Jon,

Warder discusses the relative chronology of the texts (based on the
analysis of the volution of the metres) in his book:

Pali Metre: A Contribution to the History of Indian Literature
By Anthony Kennedy Warder

http://books.google.com/books?ei=iCS_R4_vH56SzQSsquTcAQ&id=SnQhAAAAMAAJ&dq=Warder+metre&q=chronology&pgis=1#search

You may also find useful:

Topics in Pāli Historical Phonology
By Indira Junghare

http://books.google.com/books?id=MckvAAAAIAAJ&q=chronology+Pali&dq=chronology+Pali&as_brr=0&ei=DSa_R8j6EJXGyAS1ronnAQ&pgis=1


Automatic Analysis of Pali Literature by Personal Computer--Pali Font,
Metre and Word-Pada Index
YAMAZAKI Moriichi

http://ci.nii.ac.jp/cinii/servlet/QuotDisp?LOCALID=ART0002930851&DB=NELS&USELANG=en

> Do you know of a bibliography of Pali linguistics?

Just some books:

A Handbook of Pali Literature
By OSKAR VON HINUBER. Indian Philology and South Asian Studies, vol. 2.
New York: WALTER DE GRUYTER, 1996. Pp. 257.

http://books.google.com/books?id=8jPYUCy-GxQC&printsec=frontcover

Pāli: A Grammar of the Language of the Theravāda Tipiṭaka
By Thomas Oberlies

http://books.google.com/books?id=zFc5_SU_uwwC&printsec=frontcover

Aśokan Prakrit and Pali
Thomas Oberlies

http://books.google.com/books?id=jPR2OlbTbdkC&pg=PA161&dq=Oberlies&ei=CtmVR_qtG6WY6AK_uLCsBw&sig=AdxyWiA0t3uVyL8Vl78osemlpB0

Simplified Grammar of the Pali Language
By E. Muller

http://books.google.com/books?id=yxbHMM5sfpAC&printsec=frontcover

A Dictionary of the Pali Language
By Robert Cæsar Childers

http://books.google.com/books?id=xl3MZjR6_rIC&printsec=frontcover

A_History_Of_Pali_Literature

Bimala_Churn_Law

http://tera-3.ul.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/DBscripts/metainfo.cgi?id=35453
http://tera-3.ul.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/DBscripts/metainfo.cgi?id=35454

Winternitz, Maurice. History of Indian Literature, , Vol II (Buddhist
and Jaina Literature). Trans. from German by V. Srinivasa Sarma.

http://books.google.com/books?id=FYPOVdzZ2UIC&printsec=frontcover

Pali Language and Literature : A Systematic Survey and Historical
Study/Kanai Lal Hazra. Reprint. New Delhi, D.K. Printworld, 1998, 2
Vols., 823 p., ISBN 81-246-0004-X. [Emerging Perceptions in Buddhist
Studies, No. 4 and 5].

http://books.google.com/books?id=7oXOAAAACAAJ&dq=Kanai+Hazra&ei=Nie_R6TjG4zGyAS59fS2Ag

Norman, K. R., Pali Literature, Including the Canonical Literature in
Prakrit and Sanskrit of All Hinayana Schools of Buddhism. Weisbaden:
Otto Harrassowitz, 1983.

Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Pali Literature/edited by N.K. Singh and B.
Baruah. Delhi, Global Vision, 2003, 2 vols., xx, 658 p.

http://books.google.com/books?id=uPWHIAAACAAJ&dq=Singh+Pali+literature&ei=FSi_R47SKJCUzQT_243dAQ

http://books.google.com/books?q=subject:%22Pali+language%22&as_brr=3

I also wonder if one can find linguistic evolution in suttas given at
various Vassa places:

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/buddhism/tobudha3.htm

With metta,
Dmytro

> --- 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