Sages & Scientists · Vyakarana
Panini
पाणिनि
Pāṇini
Panini's Ashtadhyayi is considered the first surviving generative grammar of any language, anticipating the formalism that Chomsky would describe over twenty-three centuries later.
Quick facts
- Era
- c. 5th–4th century BCE
- field
- Linguistics, formal grammar
- sourcing
- well-attested
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