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Born February 16, 1901 • Rome • Italy
Died March 2, 1978 (aged 77) • New Jersey
Subjects Of Study linguistics • language
Noam Chomsky wearing glasses and a dark sweater, looking slightly to the side during an interview.
Noam Chomsky
American linguist
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Kenneth L. Pike
American linguist
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Roman Jakobson
American linguist
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Sydney M. Lamb
American linguist
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Leonard Bloomfield
American linguist
Rask, detail of a lithograph
Rasmus Rask
Danish language scholar
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Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian philosopher and literary critic
Ferdinand de Saussure seated in a formal pose, wearing a dark suit with a vest and sporting a thick mustache, circa 1900.
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist
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Friedrich Müller
Austrian linguist
Sayce, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, c. 1920; in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Archibald H. Sayce
British language scholar
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Hans Conon von der Gabelentz
German linguist
Holger Pedersen
Holger Pedersen
Danish linguist
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John R. Firth
British linguist
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Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay
Polish linguist
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Michael Halliday
British linguist
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Eduard Hermann
German linguist
Rudolf Carnap
Rudolf Carnap
German-American philosopher
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Lorenzo Valla
Italian humanist
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker
Canadian-born American psychologist
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Elijah Bokher Levita
Italian grammarian