This 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.
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1. Wikipedia: Structural Linguistics
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Saussure's Course in General Linguistics (French: Cours de linguistique générale, CLG), published posthumously in 1916, stressed examining language as a dynamic system of interconnected units.
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