Reviewed by Leonid Kulikov, University of Nijmegen

(around 600500 B.C.), one of the most outstanding linguists who ever lived, whose contri-bution to language science cannot be overestimated. His grammatical treatise As.t.ādhyāȳ (lit. `consisting of eight chapters/books'), representing in a very condensed form the rules of the Sanskrit grammar, is an impressive specimen of the use of several sophisticated de-scriptive techniques, anticipating a number of theoretical notions (such as zero morpheme, semantic roles, etc.), which modern linguistics has only developed in the last century. No wonder Pān. ini's work constantly draws the attention of scholars both in and outside India, and not only that of Sanskritists, so that Pān. inian studies can be said to represent a solid separate branch of research on the history and theory of linguistics. The author of this survey, the American linguist George Cardona (GC), is one of the most authoritative modern Pān. inian scholars, who happily combines the achievements o