Linguists Flashcards
u gotta know section
1
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- Sanskrit grammarian
- worked at Taxila, seat of Vedic learning
- Ashahayati: first descriptive grammar of ANY language
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Panini
2
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- judge/employee of British East India company
- philologist
- Asiatic society of Bengal
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William Jones
3
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- swiss linguist
- made structuralism theory
- laryngeal theory
- book: Course in General Linguistics
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Ferdinand de Saussure
4
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- American school of Saussure’s structuralism
- textbook “Language”
- phonology and morphology of Germanic Languages
- worked with Tagalog (Phillippines)
- Linguistic Society of America
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Leonard Bloomfield
5
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- language structure shapes how people think, close to Linguistic Determinism
- debunked on a lot of SUS claims
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Edward Sapir, Benjamin Lee Whorf
6
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- under structuralist Zellig Harris
- theory of generative grammar
- child language acquisition: biological/cognitive biases of language
- Book syntatic structures: “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously”: syntactically correct but semantically nonsensical
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Noam Chomsky
