If the Indian tradition is taken as the decisive authority, in fact the names and main ideas are from tradition, a succinct statement is available in MadhusuudanaSarasvatii's Prasthaanabhedaa.h. Aided by a few other traditional compendia it furnishes material to devise an exhaustive  two-dimensional structure. The Vedangas can be accommodated but things get complicated without new two dimensional structures for them. Unpublished tho (I hardly get time to arrange the material in a printable form) I taught these to foreign students for years with positive response.
Two Belgian students stated that the treatment of the subject was somewhat similar in their country. I could not verify.
The sandhi rules too are two-dimensionally structured and when communicated well-received by students. But this is on an exclusive plan not applicable to other divisions of categories.
Was this of any help? As far as I remember the matter came up once long ago.
Best
DB



On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Shyam Ranganathan <shyamr@yorku.ca> wrote:
Dear List Members

I am grateful for all the insightful comments that members generously shared in response to my query. Here are the references:

  • Mimamsa, 2.1 (adhikaranas 7-8 and 10-12) in Śabara and Kumārila
  • James A. Santucci, "An Outline of Vedic Literature." (AAR) Minnesota: Scholar's Press. 
  • Frits Staal's *Discovering the Vedas* Penguin, 2008.
  • Witzel and by Witzel and Jamieson, at http://indology.info/papers/
  • Michael Witzel, "Tracing the Vedic Dialects" in Colette Caillat (ed.), Dialectes dans les littératures indo-aryennes. Paris: Institut de Civilisation Indienne, 1989: 97-264

Many thanks!
Shyam


On 12/05/2014 11:22 PM, Shyam Ranganathan wrote:
Dear Indology List members,

I appreciate that this may seem a basic question. It's so basic, I don't have any fantastic references!

I was hoping for references to authoritative accounts of the division of the Vedas into versions (Rg, Yajur etc.,), parts (Mantra, Brahmana etc.)  and dates in English.

I was also interested in linguistic accounts of the Vedas that might distinguish the earlier and later Vedas on linguistic lines.

All help is most appreciated!

Gratefully yours,
Shyam 




-- 
Shyam Ranganathan, MA, MA, PhD
Department of Philosophy
Department of Social Science, South Asian Studies
York University, Toronto

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