Encyclopaedia Of Linguistics And Grammar, Vols 1 to 5

Linguistics was pursued in ancient India for many centuries. The 5th Century BC grammar of Panini is a particularly detailed description of Sanskrit Morphology evincing a high level of linguistic insight and analysis. The Indian grammatical tradition is believed to have been active for many centuries before Panini, and anticipates by millennia certain developments in the West: the phoneme, generation of word forms by the successive application of morphological rules, etc. In Linguistics, grammar refers to the logical and structural rules that govern the composition of sentences, phrases and words in any given language. The term refers also to the study of such rules, and this field includes morphology and syntax, often complemented by phonetics, phonology, semantics and pragmatics.