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: 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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