3. The earliest written texts written in
cuneiform on clay tables
The linguistic texts from the earliest part of
the tradition were list of nouns in Sumerian
11. - Grammarian who thought precludes
modern concepts of European and
American Structuralism. He made pokes
at Aristotelian (from which Formalism
would sprout) approaches to language,
and argued that all languages should be
appreciated in their own right.
12. - Took a rationalist approach
to language. They believed in
language universals as
evidenced by a common
thought structure in people
thoughout the civilized
world.
13. A judge in the British Royal Court in India; in
1786, he wrote a paper to the Royal Asiatic
Society in Calcutta about the historical
connection between Sanskrit and Western
European languages such as Greek, the
Romance Languages, and the Germatic
Languages.
14. - Believe that language and
thought are inseparable. His
teachings serve as a strong
precedent to the teachings
of Benjamin Whorf and
Noam Chomsky (generative
grammar)
15. - Wrote the variety of
human language
structure, which was later
hailed by Leonard
Bloomfield as the first
great book on general
linguistics.
16. Coined the phrase ‘comparative
grammar’, which originally
referred to comparing
morphology in Sankrit and
other Indo-European languages
to determine genetic
relationships.
17. Devised grimm’s law which states that “If there
is found between two languages agreement in
the forms of indispensable words to such an
entent that rules of letter changes can be
discovered for passing from one to the other,
then there is a basic relationship between this
languages.
24. was a Swiss linguist,
semiotician and philosopher.
His ideas laid a foundation for
many significant
developments in both
linguistics and semiotics in
the 20th century.
was a Russian linguist and
literary theorist. A pioneer of
structural linguistics,
Jakobson was one of the most
celebrated and influential
linguists of the twentieth
century.
25. as an American anthropologist-
linguist, who is widely considered to
be one of the most important figures
in the development of the discipline of
linguistics in the United States. Sapir
was born in German Pomerania, in
what is now northern Poland.
was an American linguist and fire
prevention engineer who is famous for
proposing the "Sapir–Whorf
hypothesis." He believed that the
structures of different languages shape
how their speakers perceive and
conceptualize the world.
26. - Avram Noam Chomsky (1928-)
and his followers have
transformed linguistics. Indeed,
despite many difficulties and
large claims later retracted, the
school of deep or generative
grammar still holds centre stage.
27. - George Lakoff is famous for
being one of the founding
fathers of cognitive linguistics,
for battling Noam Chomsky,
and for arguing that using the
right metaphors is the key to
winning a political debate.
