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Part1.
Introduction
1.Objectivesandapproach
ThepresentbookisarevisedversionofmyPh.D.dissertation.It
consistsoffiveparts,threeappendices1andaglossary.Theintroductory
chapterconsistsofageneraloverviewofclassicalTibetangrammar
whichhasitsbasisintwoknownroottexts,SumcupaandRtagskyi!jug
pa:abriefhistory,itsauthorship,itsdevelopmentanditsplaceinthe
modernTibetanlanguage.InexplanatoryremarksIhavetriedtopresent
anumberofpointswhichhavenotbeenwidelyexaminedbymodernTi-
betanandWesternscholars,raisingfordiscussioncertainproblemsthe
Tibetansthemselvesfaceintheirgrammar.Thisdiscussionisnotonlya
discusssionoftheproblemofthecommentariesexaminedbutis,ina
widerseense,anexaminationofthegeneralproblemsofclassicalTi-
betangrammar.
Ihavetriedmybesttooffertoreaderssomeideasandanewap-
proachonthepointswhichIhavediscussed.Oneshould,however,keep
inmindthatthediscussionscarriedoutherearepresentedfromthepoint
ofviewoftraditionalTibetangrammar,andnotfromthepointofview
ofEuropeanlinguistics.
1MypapersonMkhaspa!ikhargyan,whichisfoundintheappendix,andonthefunc-
tionofparticlesla,naandtheinsertionoftheinstrumentalcaseinPart2(explanatoryre-
marks),werepresentedatthe10
thSeminarofTibetanStudiesinOxfordandthat
TuebingenUniversity(B114researchproject),respectively.
