Paa.ninian description of German

[Jan E.M. Houben]

even if it was intended as amusement or entertainment
- did it ever appear in print?
J.H.
--- Frits Staal <jfstaal at SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU> wrote:
> Re. Jan Houben's suggestion "for Paniniyas":
>
> In the early 1960's, John Brough, during a seminar,
> gave a very amusing and
> clever analysis of a bit of English in Paninian
> sutra style - about a page
> of them as I recall - but it was just an
> entertainment - albeit illuminating!
>
> Frits Staal
>
> At 05:32 AM 1/25/02 -0800, you wrote:
> >For the Paa.niniiyas among you:
> >For centuries western scholars and missionaries
> have
> >been describing most divergent languages all over
> the
> >world in the categories of Latin grammar. What will
> >happen if we start to describe a European language,
> >for instance German, "through the eyes" of
> Paa.nini's
> >theoretical approach? Will it give new insights on
> the
> >structure of German? Does it solve old problems or
> >does it create (interesting or unnecessary) new
> ones?
> >Does it also give new insights on Paa.nini's
> >theoretical system?
> >
> >These issues are courageously taken up in a recent
> >paper by Prof. Peter Raster (Essen). See the
> *Essener
> >Linguistische Skripte - elektronisch*, issue of
> >December 2001:
> >
>
>http://www.elise.uni-essen.de/elise/elise_01_02/01raster_01_02.pdf
> >
> >Best, Jan Houben
> >
> >
> >
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> Frits Staal
>
> http://philosophy.berkeley.edu/staal


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