Zellig Harris
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Zellig Harris was an influential American linguist known for his pioneering work in structural linguistics and discourse analysis, and for mentoring Noam Chomsky.
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American linguist
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human → linguist → |
| academicAdvisor |
Edgar H. Sturtevant
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| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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| educatedAt |
University of Pennsylvania
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| employer |
University of Pennsylvania
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| familyName |
Harris
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| fieldOfWork |
discourse analysis
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information theory → linguistics → mathematical linguistics → morphology → phonology → structural linguistics → syntax → transformational grammar → |
| givenName |
Zellig
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| hasAcademicDiscipline |
cognitive science
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humanities → philology → |
| influenced |
Noam Chomsky
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generative grammar → structural linguistics → |
| influencedBy |
logical positivism
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structuralism in linguistics → |
| knownFor |
development of distributional methods in linguistics
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early formulation of transformational analysis → pioneering work in discourse analysis → pioneering work in structural linguistics → |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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| memberOf |
University of Pennsylvania Department of Linguistics
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| nativeLanguage |
English
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| notableIdea |
distributional structure of language
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operator grammar → transformational analysis of sentences → |
| notableStudent |
Noam Chomsky
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| notableWork |
Discourse Analysis
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Mathematical Structures of Language → Methods in Structural Linguistics → Papers in Structural and Transformational Linguistics → Structural Linguistics → |
| positionHeld |
professor of linguistics
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| researchInterest |
distributional analysis of language
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formal properties of language → scientific methodology in linguistics → |
| sexOrGender |
male
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| workLocation |
Philadelphia
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United States → |
Referenced by (2)
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Noam Chomsky
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doctoralAdvisor |
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Noam Chomsky
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influencedBy |