Zellig Sabbettai Harris was an American linguist, mathematical syntactician and methodologist of science, widely considered influential in his fields. Originally a Semiticist, he is best known for his work in structural linguistics and discourse analysis and for the discovery of transformational structure in language, developments from the first ten years of his career. His later contributions, over the following 35 years, included transfer grammar, string analysis, elementary sentence differences, algebraic structures in language, operator grammar, sublanguage grammar, a theory of linguistic information, and an account of the nature and origin of language.
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RoleAmerican linguist, mathematical syntactician, and methodologist of science 1 Connections
Associated With
Analyzed the structure of Modern Hebrew in his early structuralist work, alongside his development of distributional methods for English.
Influenced
Chomsky was Harris student at the University of Pennsylvania, and Harris distributional methods shaped Chomsky early transformational analysis before he developed generative grammar.
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1. Wikipedia: Zellig Harris
Wikimedia FoundationLead sentence, birth date in parenthetical
October 23, 1909, May 22, 1992
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October 23, 1909, May 22, 1992
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was an American linguist, mathematical syntactician, and methodologist of science widely considered to have been influential in his fields.
Lead sentence, death date in parenthetical
October 23, 1909, May 22, 1992
Lead sentence, death year in parenthetical
October 23, 1909, May 22, 1992
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Zellig Sabbettai Harris was an American linguist, mathematical syntactician and methodologist of science, widely considered influential in his fields.
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