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: Philology
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Classical philology, a subfield of Classics, studies Classical languages. Classical philology principally originated from the Library of Pergamum and the Library of Alexandria around the fourth century BC during the Hellenistic Period, and was continued by the Ancient Greeks and the Ancient Romans during the Roman Republic and Roman Empire.
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