Duroiselle Ch. A Practical Grammar of the Pali Language

Third Edition. — Buddha Dharma Education Association, 1997. — 182 p.Most introductory Pali grammar books consist of lessons that teach the elements of the language in stages, but because of that they are also very difficult to use as a reference when you need to look up a noun's declension, or a verb's conjugation. This book because of its practical and comprehensive coverage of the elements of the Pali language in complete chapters is a very useful reference. This book was also not written for linguistics experts, but for students with little experience studying Pali grammar.
For these reasons I have found it extremely useful and I recommend it to people who have already completed one of the many books that have graduated exercies intended to introduce the basics of Pali grammar. After you have completed one of those preliminary books and move on to really read Pali texts you will find this book to be a really good friend.
Unfortunately, this book having been out of print for many years few people know of its existence and the copies that people who know about it are using are mainly photocopied versions like mine. So I thought that entering the text into a computer would be useful for both myself and also for other people interested in studying the Pali language.
In producing this edition I have made some corrections and changes to the original. I have kept most of the archaic english spelling and usage. This is because it has a certain charm to it and is itself a lesson in language. Pali has not changed in the last 80 years, but the reader will soon see how much English has changed. The corrections I made where mainly to errors in layout editing and punctuation that existed in the original book. Still, I have probably left a few and made some new ones for the editors of the fourth edition to correct when they update the English used.