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Kenneth L. Pike
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Also Known As Kenneth Lee Pike
Born June 9, 1912 • Connecticut
Died December 31, 2000 (aged 88) • Dallas • Texas
Subjects Of Study linguistics • phonology • language • tagmeme
Roman Jakobson
American linguist
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
American linguist
Edward Sapir and colleagues from the University of Chicago
Edward Sapir
American linguist
Alfred M. Tozzer
American anthropologist
Joseph H. Greenberg
American anthropologist and linguist
Horatio Hale
American anthropologist
Mario Pei
American linguist
Sydney M. Lamb
American linguist
Leonard Bloomfield
American linguist
James Owen Dorsey
American ethnologist
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian philosopher and literary critic
Ferdinand de Saussure
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist
Yury Valentinovich Knorozov
Russian linguist
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
Paulus Cua
Vietnamese scholar
Holger Pedersen
Holger Pedersen
Danish linguist
John R. Firth
British linguist
Vilém Mathesius
Czech linguist
Nikolay Sergeyevich Trubetskoy
Russian linguist

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