Thesis entitled 'The Chronology of the Pali Canon: the case of the

Paul Kingsbury graduated summa cum laude in linguistics from Ohio
State University in 1993 with a thesis on "Some sources for L-words in
Sanskrit". He subsequently entered the University of Pennsylvania to
study historical linguistics and Sanskrit, but (like most historical
students) was diverted to computational issues. He joined the Propbank
project in 2000 and soon thereafter engineered a major rethinking of
the methods and goals of the project, in order to make the annotation
linguistically meaningful. He completed his doctorate in 2002 with a
thesis entitled 'The Chronology of the Pali Canon: the case of the
aorist'.