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Also Known As Roman Osipovich Jakobson
Born October 11, 1896 • Moscow • Russia
Died July 18, 1982 (aged 85) • Boston • Massachusetts
Notable Works “Preliminaries to Speech Analysis”
Subjects Of Study linguistics • phonology • structural linguistics • Slavic languages • distinctive feature analysis • language
Nikolay Sergeyevich Trubetskoy
Russian linguist
Kenneth L. Pike
American linguist
Leonard Bloomfield
American linguist
Ferdinand de Saussure
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
American linguist
Edward Sapir and colleagues from the University of Chicago
Edward Sapir
American linguist
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian philosopher and literary critic
Mario Pei
American linguist
Sydney M. Lamb
American linguist
Zellig S. Harris
American scholar
Kristeva, Julia
Julia Kristeva
French author
Friedrich Müller
Austrian linguist
August Leskien
German linguist
Sayce, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, c. 1920; in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Archibald H. Sayce
British language scholar
Dobrovský, detail of an oil painting by J. Tkadlík, 1821; in the Museum of Czech Literature, Prague.
Josef Dobrovský
Czech scholar
Holger Pedersen
Holger Pedersen
Danish linguist
John R. Firth
British linguist
Vilém Mathesius
Czech linguist
Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay
Polish linguist
Kurylowicz
Jerzy Kuryłowicz
Polish linguist

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