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My professor-of-sanskrit friend chimes in: The Germans were deep into Pannini in the 1800s, and the Russians were as well. So it's possible the first point ov
by finnh 9y ago
My professor-of-sanskrit friend chimes in:
The Germans were deep into Pannini in the 1800s, and the Russians were as well.
So it's possible the first point overstates the degree of ignorance of Pannini, at least on Markov's part =)
- Isamu 9y agoThanks for this pointer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini "Pāṇini's work became known in 19th-century Europe, where it influenced modern linguistics initially through Franz Bopp, who mainly looked at Pāṇini. Subsequently, a wider body of work influenced Sanskrit scholars such as Ferdinand de Saussure, Leonard Bloomfield, and Roman Jakobson."