SV: iCPD
From: Ole Holten Pind
Message: 2183
Date: 2007-07-05
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af Eisel Mazard
Sendt: 5. juli 2007 05:25
Til: palistudy@yahoogroups.com
Emne: Re: [palistudy] iCPD
> The whole
debate over "Magadhisms" is an unflattering example of this. <
Yes, indeed. In 1997 I pointed out at a conference in Warsaw that the
distribution in the Pali canon of the vocatives bhikkhave and bhikkhavo
shows that bhikkhave never occurs in verse and never initially in prose,
unlike bhikkhavo which only occurs in verse and in sentence initial position
in prose. In short, bhikkhave is an enclitic vocative. Although bhikkhave is
a favorite example of Magadhisms among MI scholars, it seems obvious that
its use is intrinsic to the language as such and cannot be interpreted as a
Magadhism per se: the use of the two forms are obviously defined by their
syntactical properties.
Ole Holten Pind
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