SV: KR Norman on by/vy alternation

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af Eisel Mazard
Sendt: 31. oktober 2005 11:50
Til: palistudy@yahoogroups.com
Emne: Re: [palistudy] KR Norman on by/vy alternation

Re:
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I've started to read
Indira Y. Junghare's Topics in Pali Historical Phonology (Motilal
Banarsidass, 1979)
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I read as much as I could of that book (and cited it in my short article on
the origins of the Pali language).  Junghare makes a few interesting
observations, however, I found much of the analysis to be "genuinely
pointless" from any standpoint except a detached interest in the
proliferation of linguistic methodology.

Re: the similarities between empirical Pali and _de jure_ Paninian Sanskrit
--while many have suggested that this is because Pali is somehow "more akin
to spoken language" than Sk. epic poetry (etc.), I wonder if this is not
instead because the spoken language described by Panini and that of the
Tipitaka are equally artificial languages.

In the case of Paninian Sanskrit it is absolutely impossible that Panini is
describing an artificial language. There are obvious reasons for that.
Anyway, what is an artificial language in the Indian context?

Ole Pind


Nyanatusita's (excellent) list of Pali sources names a Pali & Prakrit
"mixed" work collecting together wit, plays-on-words, and innuendo.  I had
not heard of this work before --it would probably be a very rich source for
comparative Pali & Prakrit linguistic research (if this has not been done
already...).

I also would like to complain about my own ignorance in one special respect
(there are many):
   Do the Jains have any grammatical works sufficiently early to be of
interest to a comparative study of Jain prakrit, Pali, & Sk.?  I have never
read of such sources; but I am dimly aware that only the earliest Jain texts
have a strong resemblance to canonical Pali.

E.M.


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