LINGUIST CONTRIBUTIONS

• It was the fist person ever to demonstrate and show to society

the relationship and connection between the classical
languages such as Greek and Latin, and Sanskrit languages,
Sir William Jones
showing up the resemblance of both of them and suggested
that the three languages share a same root. He also said that
the gothic, Persian and Celtic languages may also have the
same root.
• He contributed with the system of transliteration, and translate
a big numerous of articles to English, the principal book he
translated is called “Laws of Man” (Manu smriti)
• He was the fist ever person from the west that studied Indian
1746-1794 classical music, and the first to attempt to classify the Indian
flora and fauna from, after their studies, many western
universities were interested in this topic.
• He was one of the founders of structuralism, he introduces this
Ferdinand de Saussure
discipline to linguistics, he make a break on how to study
language, making history.
• Stablished the arbitrary relation between sound and meaning
and how all languages are structured in a similar way. our
conception of things, actions, and ideas, are part of our
language, and schemas in the brain capable of react to
combinations of sounds.
• He introduced the terms signifiant ‘signifier’ for the acoustic
image and signifié ‘signified’ for the concept.
• He proposes a distinction between langue (abstraction of
language) and parole. (Reality of language), even though
1857-1913 language is based on both of them.
 • He represents American structuralism. rejects the use of all that
Leonard Bloomfield was not “directly observable” for making a linguistic analysis.
• founder of “antimentalism” (the interpretation the relation of
language and acts of the mind).
• His main works set his version of structuralism and draws the
three principal traditions in study of language: the comparative-
historical, philosophical-empirical and descriptive-prescriptive
• He was concern about giving linguistics a similar character to
that of the natural sciences, proposing to eliminate all studies
related to phycological or mentalist topics.
• He said that language start with the phonetics and Phonology.
Arguing the existence of two concepts in order to understand

1887-1949 sound and meaning, lexicon (the total inventory of morphemes)

and grammar (the combination of morphemes)
• He developed the theory of generative grammar, which is one
of the most significant contributions to linguistics that was made
Noam Chomsky in the 20th century.
• His contribution of naturalistic approach to the study of
language has influenced the philosophy of language and mind.
• He stablished the Chomsky hierarchy, which is a classification
of formal languages by their generative power.
• He proposes that the proper object of study for linguistics
should be the mental representations of grammars, that help
the native speaker to have some knowledge of his language,
just like a child constructing a phrase.
• According to him, the ultimate goal of linguistic science is to
provide a universal grammar theory, which gives the adequate
1928-nowadays
grammar to any language, which is available in the social
environments of children
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