Role sorts linguists by the part they actually played in the field, such as founding a school of thought or documenting an endangered language. Wikipedia notes Chomsky is sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics," a role distinct from that of a field linguist recording a single language. This dimension groups linguists who played a similar kind of part in the field.
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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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