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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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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