I don't have the book at hand (though I have read it), but you might want to look at:
Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat&#39;s The Sanskrit Language: An overview.<div><br></div><div>It is not overly long, but there is no shortage of detail.</div><div><br></div><div>Herman Tull<br><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Allen Thrasher <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:alanus1216@yahoo.com" target="_blank">alanus1216@yahoo.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">I have a friend who teaches English grammar in a correspondence school.  I would like to give him a notion of the glories of  the Sanskrit grammatical tradition.  Can someone recommend a good sketch for someone with no indological background of how Paninian grammar works, and of the tradition of grammar and philosophical grammar after him?  I am thinking of something of the length of a chapter in a book or a pamphlet.<br>
<br>Thanks,<br><br>Allen<br><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Herman Tull<br>Princeton, NJ <br><br>
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