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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Thomas Oberlies, geboren 1958, ist Professor für Indologie und Tibetologie an der Universität Göttingen und ordentliches Mitglied der Göttinger Akademie der Wissenschaften.