Nationality groups linguists by the country each one came from. Wikipedia describes Noam Chomsky as "an American intellectual, philosopher, linguist, political activist, and social critic," a nationality that placed him within American academic institutions throughout his career. This dimension shows which countries produced the people behind a given theory or school of thought.
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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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