Noam Chomsky acknowledged that Panini’s grammar was “first modern generative grammar”

Source:-@TrueIndology

Panini (c. 5th century BC) was first to use the concept of recursion to formulate grammatical rules
Finite state algorithms simulate it pic.twitter.com/A3C5Ok80QI

— True Indology (@TrueIndology) September 21, 2017