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List of Famous Linguists
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Learn the names and contributions of influential historical linguists, from ancient Sanskrit grammarians to modern structural linguistics pioneers.
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front Sanskrit grammarian | back Panini |
front British philologist | back William Jones |
front Created structural linguistics | back Ferdinand de Saussure |
front Developed linguistic determinism with his student | back Edward Sapir |
front Language, thought, and reality | back Benjamin Lee Whorf |
front a founder of the Linguistic Society of America | back Leonard Bloomfield |
front Poverty of the stimulus | back Noam Chomsky |
front merge operation for syntactic trees | back Noam Chomsky |
front invented pragmatics | back Paul Grice |
front The Metaphors we live by | back George Lakoff |
front The Logic of Nonstandard English | back William Labov |
front The Language Instinct, it criticized the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis | back Steven Pinker |
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