Karl Verner: Quick Facts


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Also Known As Karl Adolf Verner
Born March 7, 1846 • Århus • Denmark
Died November 5, 1896 (aged 50) • Copenhagen • Denmark
Subjects Of Study Verner’s law

Holger Pedersen
Holger Pedersen
Danish linguist
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Noam Chomsky
American linguist
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Lancelot Thomas Hogben
English scientist
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Michel Thomas
linguist and teacher
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker
Canadian-born American psychologist
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Julia Kristeva
French author
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Kenneth L. Pike
American linguist
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Joseph H. Greenberg
American anthropologist and linguist
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Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian philosopher and literary critic
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Roman Jakobson
American linguist
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Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist
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Karl Brugmann
German linguist
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Friedrich Müller
Austrian linguist
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Mario Pei
American linguist
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Sydney M. Lamb
American linguist
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Archibald H. Sayce
British language scholar
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Leonard Bloomfield
American linguist
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John R. Firth
British linguist
J.L. Austin
J.L. Austin
British philosopher