New Thesis Claims May Have Decoded 2,500-Year-Old “Language Machine”
More than 2,000 years ago, Indian scholar Dakṣiputra Pāṇini created a complex rule book for the complex workings of the ancient Sanskrit language. In a recently published thesis, Ph.D. student Rishi Rajpopat from the University of Cambridge claims to have decoded the seemingly contradictory guidelines in Pāṇini’s “language machine.” Photo Credit: Cambridge University Library CC-By-NC-3.0 … Read more