Home›Structural and Theoretical Linguistics›Language(s) StudiedBrowse ByLanguage(s) StudiedLanguages studied names the specific languages a linguist built their research around. Wikipedia notes that Chomsky's 1957 work "played a major role in remodeling the study of language" itself, grounded in his close analysis of English sentence structure. This dimension lets a visitor find every linguist whose research centered on the same language.FactsLanguage(s) StudiedSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonCentury Of OriginWell-attested20 CE 1Language(s) StudiedFilter Results6 entriesRoleAllCognitive Linguist / Philosopher (1)Linguist (general) (6)Psycholinguist (1)Semanticist (1)Sinologist (1)Syntactician (1)EraAll1767 (1)1840 (1)1887 (1)1890 (1)1896 (1)1909 (1)1914 (2)1923 (1)1925 (1)1928 (1)1929 (1)1936 (1)1940 (1)1941 (1)1945 (1)1954 (1)NationalityAllCanada (1)Germany (1)Kingdom of Prussia (1)Russia (1)United Kingdom (1)United States (3)Influenced ByAllFerdinand de Saussure (1)John Rupert Firth (1)Leonard Bloomfield (2)Noam Chomsky (1)Otto Jespersen (1)Roman Jakobson (1)Zellig Harris (1)SchoolAllCognitive (1)Functional (1)Generative (1)Structuralist (3)Attested From (Year)All1500 BCE (1)1000 BCE (1)450 (1)765 (1)901 (1)1001 (1)Attested To (Year)All300 (1)Difficulty for an English SpeakerAllCategory II (1)Category III (1)Category IV (2)ISO 639-3 CodeAlldeu (1)ell (1)eng (1)eus (1)heb (1)ru (1)Speaker CountAll806,000 (1)5,000,000 (1)13,500,000 (1)135,000,000 (1)154,000,000 (1)1,500,000,000 (1)StatusAllLiving (6)ToneAllNot Tonal (6)Word OrderAllOther (2)SOV (1)SVO (3)Show ResultsBrowseCompareBasqueLanguage(s) Studied1 entryEnglishLanguage(s) Studied15 entriesGermanLanguage(s) Studied1 entryGreekLanguage(s) Studied1 entryHebrewLanguage(s) Studied1 entryRussianLanguage(s) Studied1 entrySources1. Wikipedia: Structural LinguisticsWikimedia FoundationLead sectionQuote, Lead sectionSaussure'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.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.