Re: Kacc 271

Bedell,

   Did you do any further work on Kaccayana's "algebraic system of
declensions" (as Pind calls it)?

   I read the transcript of the short lecture you gave on this subject.

   I would be interested to know what precedents this has ... in the
history of linguistics in general.  Pind's article refers to it as an
innovation in Kacc (which it may well be) --or it could be a fragment
from some other grammatical tradition.

   In any case, I would be interested to know what conclusions you drew
on the existence of this feature of the Vyakarana.  Your lecture
remarked that it resembled some forms of modern linguistic analysis;
however, I doubt this was Kaccayana's inspiration.

E.M.