Languages studied names the specific languages a linguist built their research around. Wikipedia notes that Chomsky's 1957 work "played a major role in remodeling the study of language" itself, grounded in his close analysis of English sentence structure. This dimension lets a visitor find every linguist whose research centered on the same language.
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Century Of Origin Language(s) Studied
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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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