This dimension places a linguist in the period when their work actually appeared. Wikipedia notes Noam Chomsky "emerged as a significant figure in linguistics with his landmark work Syntactic Structures" in 1957, work that reshaped the field for decades after. Browsing by era sets a linguist alongside the peers who were publishing at the same time.
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1. Wikipedia: Language Documentation
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While various linguists had already been practising language documentation during the 20th century, the discipline was established as a specific field within linguistics following a 1998 publication by Nikolaus Himmelmann, which many understand as foundational.
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