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Also Known As Karl Adolf Verner
Born March 7, 1846 • Århus • Denmark
Died November 5, 1896 (aged 50) • Copenhagen • Denmark
Subjects Of Study Verner’s law
Holger Pedersen
Holger Pedersen
Danish linguist
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
American linguist
Lancelot Thomas Hogben
English scientist
Michel Thomas
linguist and teacher
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American psychologist
Kristeva, Julia
Julia Kristeva
French author
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
Karl Brugmann
German linguist
Friedrich Müller
Austrian 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
Leonard Bloomfield
American linguist
John R. Firth
British linguist
J.L. Austin
J.L. Austin
British philosopher
Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay
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