There is a need to develop a suitable c o m p u t a t i o n a l g r a m m a r formalism for free word order languages for two reasons: First, a suitably designed formalism is likely to be more efficient. Second, such a formalism is also likely to be linguistically more elegant and satisfying. In this paper, we describe such a formalism, called the Paninian framework, t h a t has been successfully applied to Indian languages. This p a p e r shows t h a t the Paninian framework.
