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Switzerland

Nationality groups linguists by the country each one came from. Wikipedia describes Noam Chomsky as "an American intellectual, philosopher, linguist, political activist, and social critic," a nationality that placed him within American academic institutions throughout his career. This dimension shows which countries produced the people behind a given theory or school of thought.

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Century Of Origin
20 CE 1
Switzerland
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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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