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Born March 6, 1834 • Austria
Died May 25, 1898 (aged 64) • Vienna • Austria
Notable Works “Outline of Linguistics”
Subjects Of Study linguistics • African languages
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
American linguist
Kenneth L. Pike
American linguist
Joseph H. Greenberg
American anthropologist and linguist
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian philosopher and literary critic
Roman Jakobson
American linguist
Ferdinand de Saussure
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist
Carl Meinhof
German linguist
Diedrich Westermann
German scholar
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
Leonard Bloomfield
American linguist
John R. Firth
British linguist
Holger Pedersen
Holger Pedersen
Danish linguist
Wilhelm Bleek
German linguist
Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay
Polish linguist
Michael Halliday
British linguist
Eduard Hermann
German linguist
Hans Kurath
American linguist
Alfred Theophil Holder
Austrian language scholar

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