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Born November 26, 1857 • Geneva • Switzerland
Died February 22, 1913 (aged 55) • Switzerland
Notable Works “Mémoire sur le système primitif des voyelles dans les langues indo-européennes”
Subjects Of Study linguistics • structural linguistics • Indo-European languages • langue • parole

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American linguist
Leonard Bloomfield
American linguist
Eduard Hermann
German linguist
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
American linguist
Rask, detail of a lithograph
Rasmus Rask
Danish language scholar
Edward Sapir and colleagues from the University of Chicago
Edward Sapir
American linguist
Kristeva, Julia
Julia Kristeva
French author
Kenneth L. Pike
American linguist
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian philosopher and literary critic
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August Schleicher
German linguist
Antoine Meillet
French linguist
Hermann Collitz
American linguist
Pott, August
August Pott
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Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
Friedrich Müller
Austrian linguist
August Fick
German linguist
August Leskien
German linguist
Mario Pei
American linguist
Sydney M. Lamb
American 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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