Who are Panini and Baudouin de Courtenay, and what do they have in common?

lanfranco

Both were linguists. Panini was a 6th-5th-century BCE Indian grammarian who produced the first Sanskrit grammar and possibly the earliest work in linguistics in general. Baudouin de Courtenay was a Polish linguist who had a major influence on 20th-century linguistic theory, especially phonology, and influenced Saussure. On Panini: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini Dec 29 06, 11:00 AM

lanfranco

And on Baudouin de Courtenay: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudouin_de_Courtenay Dec 29 06, 11:00 AM

skysmom65

They're both linguists: Jan Niecislaw Baudouin de Courtenay (March 13, 1845 - November 3, 1929) was a Polish linguist and slavist, best known for his theory of the phoneme and phonetic alternations. For most of his life he worked at Imperial Russian universities: Kazan (1874-1883), Yuryev (as Tartu, Estonia was then known) (1883-1893), Kraków (1893-1899) and St. Petersburg (1900-1918)), where he was known as Иван Александрович Бодуэн де Куртенэ (Ivan Aleksandrovich Boduen de Kurtene). In 1919-1929 he was a professor at the re-established Warsaw University in a once again independent Poland.http://www.answers.com/topic/jan-niecis-aw-baudouin-de-courtenay Panini (pä'nēnē) , fl. c.400 B.C., Indian grammarian. His Ashtādhyāyī [eight books] (tr. 1891) is one of the earliest works of descriptive linguistics and is also the first individually authored treatise on Sanskrit. Each of its 3,995 rules governing roots and suffixes is introduced in a sutra, a concise aphorism. The Ashtādhyāyī also contains historical, social, and geographical information. It is still used in the Brahmanic schools in India. http://www.answers.com/topic/panini Dec 29 06, 11:02 AM

zbeckabee

PHONEME More to the point, Panini introduced the concepts of the "phoneme and the morpheme, only recognized by Western linguists millennia after he used them." http://www.real-estate-properties.com/law/Linguistics/Panini.html "The term phoneme as an abstraction was developed by the Polish linguist Jan Niecislaw Baudouin de Courtenay and his student Miko³aj Kruszewski during 1875-1895." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoneme Dec 29 06, 12:48 PM

smartie806

Yes, you are all correct. Both were linguists, specifically having done work about phonemes. Dec 29 06, 1:16 PM