Home›Linguists›Era›By Century›20th centuryBrowse By20th 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.20th centuryComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)20th centuryFilter Results39 entriesLanguage(s) StudiedAllEnglish (14)Hebrew (2)Hindi (1)Navajo (1)Thai (1)Influenced ByAllBarbara Partee (1)Bernard Comrie (1)Daniel Everett (1)Eve V. Clark (1)Marvin Herzog (1)Michael Ventris (1)Noam Chomsky (1)Richard S. Kayne (1)Rod Ellis (1)Steven Pinker (1)William Labov (1)RoleAllAmerican linguist (2)American linguist and philologist (1)American linguist, Professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley (1)Architect and Philologist, Decipherer of Linear B (1)British linguist who studies the English language (1)Cognitive linguist and philosopher (1)Latvian-born American linguist (1)Linguist (3)Linguist and anthropologist (1)Linguist and author (1)Linguist, Founder of Generative Grammar (1)Linguist, Founder Of Sociolinguistics (1)Linguist, sociolinguist, anthropologist, and folklorist (1)Polish and American linguist (1)Specialist in English language and linguistics (1)Structural and functionalist linguist (1)Structural linguist and semiotician (1)Yiddish language professor at Columbia University (1)NationalityAllCanada (1)France (2)Hungary (1)Russia (1)United Kingdom (6)United States (25)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 39Alexandra Aikhenvald20th centuryAlice Kober20th centuryAndre Martinet20th centuryBarbara Partee20th centuryBernard Comrie20th centuryBraj Kachru20th centuryCalvert Watkins20th centuryCharles F. Hockett20th centuryCharles J. Fillmore20th centuryDaniel Everett20th centuryDavid Crystal20th centuryDell Hymes20th centuryEmile Benveniste20th centuryEugene Nida20th centuryEve V. Clark20th centuryGeoffrey Leech20th centuryGeoffrey Pullum20th centuryGeorge Lakoff20th centuryJoan Bresnan20th centuryJohn Chadwick20th centuryJohn J. Gumperz20th centuryJoseph Greenberg20th centuryKenneth Lee Pike20th centuryKenneth Locke Hale20th centuryMarvin Herzog20th centuryMary Haas20th centuryMichael E. Krauss20th centuryMichael Halliday20th centuryMichael Ventris20th centuryMorris Halle20th centuryNoam Chomsky20th centuryRay Jackendoff20th centuryRichard S. Kayne20th centurySteven Pinker20th centuryUriel Weinreich20th centuryWilliam Labov20th centuryYuri Knorozov20th centuryZellig Harris20th centuryZoltán Dörnyei20th 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.