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2. Pali - Wikipedia

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   Canonical texts include the whole of the Pali Canon or Tipitaka. With the exception of three books placed in the Khuddaka Nikaya by only the Burmese tradition, these texts (consisting of the five Nikayas of the Sutta Pitaka , the Vinaya Pitaka , and the books of the Abhidhamma Pitaka ) are traditionally accepted as containing the words of the ...

3. Canon (basic principle) - Wikipedia

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   The term canon derives from the Greek κανών (kanon), meaning "rule", and thence via Latin and Old French into English. [1] The concept in English usage is very broad: in a general sense it refers to being one (adjectival) or a group (noun) of official, authentic or approved rules or laws, particularly ecclesiastical; or group of official, authentic, or approved literary or artistic works ...

4. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   The first published English grammar was a Pamphlet for Grammar of 1586, written by William Bullokar with the stated goal of demonstrating that English was just as rule-based as Latin. Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modeled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534), used in English schools at that time, having been ...

5. Canonical - Wikipedia

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   Canonical ensemble, in statistical mechanics, is a statistical ensemble representing a probability distribution of microscopic states of the system; Canonical quantum gravity, an attempt to quantize the canonical formulation of general relativity; Canonical stress–energy tensor, a conserved current associated with translations through space ...

6. Pali Canon - Wikipedia

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   Pali Canon in English Translation, 1895-, in progress, 43 volumes so far, Pali Text Society, Bristol; for details of these and other translations of individual books see the separate articles. In 1994, the then President of the Pali Text Society stated that most of these translations were unsatisfactory. [ 78 ]

7. Religious text - Wikipedia

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   Some religious texts are categorized as canonical, some non-canonical, and others extracanonical, semi-canonical, deutero-canonical, pre-canonical or post-canonical. [7] The term "canon" is derived from the Greek word "κανών", "a cane used as a measuring instrument". It connotes the sense of "measure, standard, norm, rule".

8. Gapping - Wikipedia

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   Canonical examples of gapping have a true "gap", which means the elided material appears medially in the non-initial conjuncts, with a remnant to its left and a remnant to its right. The elided material of gapping in all the examples below is indicated with subscripts and a smaller font:

9. Nominal (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   [The] son bonus good amat (1) [he] loves canem (2) [the] dog. ACC ferocem (3). wild. ACC fīlius bonus amat (1) canem (2) ferocem (3). {[The] son} good {[he] loves} {[the] dog.ACC} wild.ACC The good son loves the wild dog. Bantuist grammar tradition The earliest study of noun classes was conducted in 1659 on Bantu languages, and this study has to this day undergone only very minor ...