Madhav M. Deshpande

Madhav M. Deshpande is a Professor Emeritus of Sanskrit and Linguistics at the University of Michigan, specializing in the Sanskrit grammatical tradition, historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics of Indo-Aryan languages. He earned his B.A. and M.A. in Sanskrit from the University of Pune and a Ph.D. in Oriental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Deshpande is considered a leading expert on the fourth-century BCE grammarian Pāṇini and has authored or edited twenty-five books and over 150 research papers. He is the author of "Ellipsis and Syntactic Overlapping: Current Issues in Paninian Syntactic Theory."