Dear Ardavarz;
"It is very interesting what you wrote about philosophical aspect of Pali
Grammar regarding the relation between language and the world ...if
you could provide these examples from the sentences he quotes..."
Here is an example of four pages dealing with "Kaaraka" defined
as "factors of action" which groups the cases that have a "connection to
the action" (nominative, accusative, instrumental, dative, ablative, and
locative) which give the logical predicate of the sentence, but not
genitive or vocative cases:
http://jonfernquest.googlepages.com/kaarakapali.pdf
(Note: I guess this is more semantics than metaphysics (Abhidhamma),
but Pali grammatical writings and Abhidhamma do seem to share a
common writing or rhetorical style, enumerating rules in extensive
logically inter-related lists and being precise about the language
certainly must be essential to logical clarity in Abhidhamma, providing a
logical and semantic foundation for it. My personal interest stems from
working with legal and political texts like Dhammathats and Rajaniti, as
included in Bechert's PTS volume Nitisastra literature of Burma for
instance. These texts also make extensive used of inter-related lists in a
similar fashion to more core Pali texts of Buddhism).
BTW Abhidhamma must be the specialty of a prominent member of the
Pali list. I read the following book a couple of weeks ago from the Siam
Society:
Abhidhamma in daily life / Nina Van Gorkom
Names Van Gorkom, Nina
Publisher Dhamma Study Group, Bangkok, 1975
With metta,
Jon Fernquest