Influenced by traces a linguist's ideas back to the thinkers whose work they built on or reacted against. Wikipedia notes Chomsky "played a pivotal role in the decline of linguistic behaviorism, and was particularly critical of the work of B. F. Skinner," a rivalry that shaped his own theories. This dimension shows the intellectual relationships running between one linguist and another.
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1. Wikipedia: Historical Linguistics
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Modern historical linguistics dates to the late 18th century, having originally grown out of the earlier discipline of philology, the study of ancient texts and documents dating back to antiquity.
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