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Sanskrit grammarian Pānini (c. 520–460 BC) is the earliest known linguist, often acknowledged as the founder of linguistics.

He is the first linguist and also the founder

Most renowned for formulating the 3,959 rules of Sanskrit morphology in an extended text that is still in use today, Pānini devised a grammar of Sanskrit that is technical and highly systematized.

He coded specific rules that are still in use today


Inherent in its analytic approach are the concepts of the phoneme, the morpheme, and the root, only documented by Western linguists some two millennia later.


The concepts used are implemented analytically and the western world discovered these, centuries after

His rules fully describe Sanskrit morphology without any redundancy.

They are clear and limpid

A consequence of his grammar's focus on brevity is its highly unintuitive structure, reminiscent of contemporary "machine language," as opposed to "human readable" programming languages.


His approach was very straight and intuitive


Feinstein's scholarship contends that Pānini's sophisticated logical rules and techniques have been widely influential in both ancient and modern linguistics.

This scholar sustained that he was highly influential


Conversely, Wherry claims that South Indian linguist Tolkāppiyar (3rd century BC) was a more significant author of linguistic theory. Tolkāppiyar wrote the grammar text of Tamil, which is also in use today.

Wherry instead, on the other hand, claims that another linguist was more influential writing and coding the Tamil taxt still used today
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1. The passage suggests which of the following?

A. The influence of early linguists Pānini and Tolkāppiyar is less than is commonly held by scholars. No false.


They were HIGHLY influential and important as lunguists

B. Sanskrit grammar is technical and highly systematized as formulated by the earliest known linguist.

True. As said above, his work was seminal and groundbreaking

C. Scholars disagree on Panini's and Tolkappiyar's impact on linguistic theory.

Yes. true

Feinstein's and Wherry susteaine that the two scholars are the pillar on their own
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2. Which one of the following can be correctly inferred from the passage?

A. Inherent in Tolkāppiyar 's systemized approach are such linguistic concepts as the phoneme, the morpheme, and the root.

False. Those concepts were in Panini's work NOT the second linguist

B. Linguistic inquiry is pursued by a wide variety of language specialists, who may not be in harmonious agreement.

The passage does not talk or describe this at all. No fights among scholars

C. Eastern linguists and Western linguists developed divergent concepts of the phoneme, the morpheme and the root.

The passage DOES NOT provide such information

D. Western linguists disagreed with the earliest linguists who categorized Sanskrit and Tamil.

No false. western scholars just discovered Panini centuries after

E. Western linguists were much later than Eastern linguists in formulating basic linguistic theories.

Yes. true and this is what is stated in the passage and the contrary of D which is false
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2. Which one of the following can be correctly inferred from the passage?

A. Inherent in Tolkāppiyar 's systemized approach are such linguistic concepts as the phoneme, the morpheme, and the root.

False. Those concepts were in Panini's work NOT the second linguist

B. Linguistic inquiry is pursued by a wide variety of language specialists, who may not be in harmonious agreement.

The passage does not talk or describe this at all. No fights among scholars

C. Eastern linguists and Western linguists developed divergent concepts of the phoneme, the morpheme and the root.

The passage DOES NOT provide such information

D. Western linguists disagreed with the earliest linguists who categorized Sanskrit and Tamil.

No false. western scholars just discovered Panini centuries after

E. Western linguists were much later than Eastern linguists in formulating basic linguistic theories.

Yes. true and this is what is stated in the passage and the contrary of D which is false


Is this the sentence stated in support of option E? ' Inherent in its analytic approach are the concepts of the phoneme, the morpheme, and the root, only documented by Western linguists some two millennia later'.

If yes, how can we infer that the concepts of phoneme, morpheme and root are 'basic linguistic theories'? I thought they are just some concepts of a linguistic approach not basic theories. Are basic theories and concepts of an approach same? How to answer such questions?
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His rules fully describe Sanskrit morphology without any redundancy

Morphology is the structure and the structure is composed by the concepts of the phoneme, the morpheme, and the root


All this together , amalgamated, create what Panini formulated. A new approach and founder of linguistics.

These are theories: if you create a systematic approach it must be based on some theory, otherwise, where does it append?

I hope now is more clear
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Two doubts
Question 1: No where mentioned about the disagreement with Tolkappiyar
Question 2: No where in the mentioned in the passage mentioned that Panini and Tolkappiyar are Eastern linguists though it is implicit.( These type of choices sometimes will be wrong -- have seen in several questions). Even in inference questions
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I have explained sentence by sentence the entire passage above and both the two questions.

Specifically why are you saying that those elements are not mentioned ?

where is you doubt ?
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can anyone help me how Eastern linguists are coming in picture coz its not mentioned anywhere in the passage
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