Re: History of modern Pali and Sanskrit grammars, dictionaries, etc.
From: Dhivan Jones
Message: 4529
Date: 2016-02-06
Dear Jim,
I was recently reading Absolute Constructions in Early Indo-European by Antonia Ruppel, Cambridge University Press, 2012, in which ch.4 concerns Sanskrit absolute constructions. In the course of her argument she reviews the aims and orientation of early Sanskrit grammars, based I think on some original research that may help you with bibliography and leads. Her point is that western grammarians of Sanskrit emphasised parallels with Latin and Greek grammar, because of a pragmatic missionary orientation, that nevertheless has remained current in our western Sanskrit grammars, despite differences (specifically with regard to absolutes) between Sanskrit and classical approaches.
Good luck!
Dhivan