Role sorts linguists by the part they actually played in the field, such as founding a school of thought or documenting an endangered language. Wikipedia notes Chomsky is sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics," a role distinct from that of a field linguist recording a single language. This dimension groups linguists who played a similar kind of part in the field.
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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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