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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
18 CE 1
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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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