Scholastic Pali. The scholastic Pali used by the commentators on the Buddhist Pali canon(5th to 20th centuries)

用巴利语（一种中印度语）写的佛教经典，有很长的接受历史记录，首先，从5世纪开始，在一系列的注释中补充了整个经典的含义（atthakatha）。这些评注在他们的部分是由各种子评注（tika），写于10至20世纪之间。这些丰富的评论文献被完整地传给了我们。通常，评注在辩证法对话中阐述各自的正典文本的意义：首先，相反思想学派的主角提出他对给定解释的反对意见（不一定是Siddhantavadin的），然后这个反对意见被评注学派的代表本人反驳，或者通过提出他的论点间接地吸引其他对话者进入辩论。根据这种模式，讨论通常落入由“断言”（pubbapakkha）和“证实的教导”（siddhanta）组成的形式化辩证法结构。这位公巴卡经常事先被其他公巴卡拒绝，只有这时悉檀多梵才会对这件事发表最后的意见。这使得把辩论中提出的每一点都归因于有关各方是一项困难和耗时的任务。在介绍各种反对意见和答复的段落中，常规词汇和习惯用语往往具有特定的含义或功能，这一事实使任务更加复杂。这个术语从来没有系统地确定，语法上的描述，或包括在词典。该项目旨在确定这些对话的具体结构特征和术语，以有助于更彻底地理解（大部分尚未开发的）注释文学，从而加深我们对年轻巴利语（5世纪至20世纪）的了解。这项调查的目的是涵盖佛教巴利文经典的全部注释（范围从5世纪到20世纪）。由于巴利文注释的经院风格清楚地反映了梵文注释文学的所谓巴夏风格，因此与经院梵文的相似之处和偏差也将被考虑在内。

The Buddhist canon written in Pali, a middle Indic language, has a long reception history documented, first and foremost, in a range of commentaries supplementing the entire canon with explanations of its meaning (atthakatha) from the 5th century onward. These commentaries on their part are augmented by various subcommentaries (tika), written between the 10th to 20th centuries. This wealth of commentarial literature has been handed down to us in its entirety. Often the commentaries expound the meaning of the respective canonical text in dialectic dialogues: first a protagonist of  an opposite school of thought raises his objection against a given interpretation (not necessarily that of the Siddhantavadin), and then this objection is refuted either by the representative of the commentator's school himself, or indirectly by drawing other interlocutors into the debate by forwarding his arguments. According to this pattern, the discussion usually falls into the formalized dialectic structure consisting of 'assertion' (pubbapakkha) and 'proven teaching' (siddhanta). The pubbapakkha is often rejected beforehand by other pubbapakkhas, and only then the Siddhantavadin pronounces the final word on the matter. This makes it a difficult and time-consuming task to attribute every single point put forward in the debate to the individual parties involved. The task is complicated further by the fact that conventional words and idiomatic expressions often acquire specific meanings or functions in the passages introducing the various objections and replies. This terminology has never been systematically determined, grammatically described, or included in lexica. The project aims to determine the specific structural features and terminology of these dialogues in order to contribute to a more thorough understanding of the (still largely unexplored) commentarial literature, and thereby to deepen our knowledge of the younger Pali language (5th to 20th centuries). The investigation is intended to cover the entire corpus of commentaries to the Buddhist Pali canon (which range from the 5th to 20th centuries). Since the scholastic style of the Pali commentaries clearly reflects the so-called Bhasya-style of commentarial literature in Sanskrit, parallels to, and deviations from, scholastic Sanskrit will also be taken into consideration.