Pali
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Pali

A Grammar of the Language of the Theravada Tipitaka. With a Concordance to Pischel's Grammatik der Prakrit-Sprachen

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Pali

A Grammar of the Language of the Theravada Tipitaka. With a Concordance to Pischel's Grammatik der Prakrit-Sprachen

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The grammar presents a full decription of Pali, the language used in the Theravada Buddhist canon, which is still alive in Ceylon and South-East Asia. The development of its phonological and morphological systems is traced in detail from Old Indic. Comprehensive references to comparable features and phenomena from other Middle Indic languages mean that this grammar can also be used to study the literature of Jainism.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9783110167634
eBook ISBN
9783110870930
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Languages
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. 1. Introduction
  2. § 1. Pāli and the Indo-Aryan languages
  3. § 2. The orthography of the Pāli texts
  4. 2. Phonology
  5. 2.1. Vowel quantity, word finals and word rhythm
  6. § 3. The ‘law of mora’
  7. § 4. Word-finals and word rhythm
  8. 2.2. The vowels
  9. § 5. The vowel a
  10. § 6. The vowel ā
  11. § 7. The vowel i
  12. § 8. The vowel ῑ
  13. § 9. The vowel u
  14. § 10. The vowel ū
  15. § 11. The vowel e
  16. § 12. The vowel ο
  17. 2.3. The consonants
  18. § 13. The consonant system
  19. § 14. Consonantal sound change
  20. § 15. Development of ΟΙΑ word-initial consonants
  21. § 16. Assimilation of clusters of two (ΟΙΑ) consonants
  22. § 17. Assimilation of clusters of three (ΟΙΑ) consonants
  23. § 18. Peculiar assimilation of (ΟΙΑ) consonant clusters
  24. § 19. Deaspiration of (Pāli) CCh-clusters
  25. § 20. Assimilation of clusters at the boundary of compounds
  26. § 21. Assimilation and splitting-up of consonant clusters
  27. § 22. Irregular sound changes
  28. 2.4. Sandhi
  29. § 23. Vocalic sandhi
  30. § 24. Consonantal sandhi
  31. § 25. Bridging of hiatus
  32. § 26. Lengthening of -aṃ before an enclitic
  33. § 27. Dropping of initial vowels (in sandhi)
  34. 3. Morphology
  35. 3.1. The noun
  36. § 28. Introduction
  37. § 29. Paradigms
  38. § 30. a-inflexion
  39. § 31. ā-inflexion
  40. § 32. i/u-inflexion
  41. § 33. Inflexion of sakhi- ‘friend’
  42. § 34. i(n)- / mi(n)- / vi(n)-inflexion
  43. § 35. Inflexion of nomina verbalia in °ū-
  44. § 36. ī/ū-inflexion
  45. § 37. Inflexion of diphthong-stems
  46. § 38. Inflexion of root-nouns and consonantal stems
  47. § 39. n-inflexion
  48. § 40. a(r)-inflexion
  49. § 41. ma(nt)-/ va(nt)-/-a(nt)-inflexion
  50. 3.2. The pronouns
  51. § 42.1 Inflexion of the personal pronoun: 1st and 2nd person
  52. 3.3. The numerals
  53. § 43.1. The cardinals
  54. 3.4. The verb
  55. § 44. The verb system
  56. § 45. ‘Root’- and e-present
  57. § 46. The verbal endings
  58. § 47. The optative
  59. § 48. The preterite
  60. § 49. The future
  61. § 50. The conditional
  62. § 51. The denominative
  63. § 52. The causative
  64. § 53. The passive
  65. 3.5. The verbum infinitum
  66. § 54. The present / future participle
  67. § 55. The gerundive
  68. § 56. The verbal adjective
  69. § 57. The infinitive
  70. § 58. The absolutive
  71. 4. Literature
  72. 5. Abbreviations and sigla
  73. 6. Indices and concordances
  74. 6.1. Index rerum
  75. 6.2. Index verborum
  76. 6.3. Index locorum
  77. 6.4. Concordance to GEIGER’s and VON HINÜBER’s grammars
  78. 6.5. Concordance to PlSCHEL’s grammar