Home›Linguists›Era›By Century›19th centuryBrowse By19th centuryThis dimension places a linguist in the period when their work actually appeared. Wikipedia notes Noam Chomsky "emerged as a significant figure in linguistics with his landmark work Syntactic Structures" in 1957, work that reshaped the field for decades after. Browsing by era sets a linguist alongside the peers who were publishing at the same time.19th centuryComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)19th centuryFilter Results20 entriesLanguage(s) StudiedAllEnglish (3)German (3)Hopi (1)Inuktitut (1)Russian (1)Sanskrit (1)Influenced ByAllAntoine Meillet (2)Benjamin Lee Whorf (1)Charles F. Hockett (1)Edward Sapir (1)Emile Benveniste (1)Eugene Nida (1)Jerzy Kuryłowicz (1)Louis Hjelmslev (1)Michael Halliday (1)Morris Halle (1)Noam Chomsky (1)Roman Jakobson (1)RoleAllAmerican linguist, philologist, and lexicographer (1)French philologist, founder of modern semantics (1)General linguist and sinologist (1)German linguist, a founder of the Neogrammarian school (1)Linguist (1)Linguist, Comparative Indo-Europeanist (1)Linguist, Founder Of American Structural Linguistics (1)Linguist, Founder of Phonology (1)Linguist, Founder of Structural Linguistics (1)Linguist, Founding Member Of The Prague Linguistic Circle (1)NationalityAllDenmark (3)France (2)Germany (4)Poland (1)Russia (2)Switzerland (1)United Kingdom (2)United States (5)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 20Antoine Meillet19th centuryAugust Schleicher19th centuryBenjamin Lee Whorf19th centuryBerthold Delbrück19th centuryEdward Sapir19th centuryFerdinand de Saussure19th centuryFranz Boas19th centuryGeorg von der Gabelentz19th centuryHenry Creswicke Rawlinson19th centuryJerzy Kuryłowicz19th centuryJohn Rupert Firth19th centuryKarl Brugmann19th centuryKarl Verner19th centuryLeonard Bloomfield19th centuryLouis Hjelmslev19th centuryMichel Bréal19th centuryNikolai Trubetzkoy19th centuryOtto Jespersen19th centuryRoman Jakobson19th centuryWilliam Dwight Whitney19th centuryComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.