Zellig Harris
Zellig Harris · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Linguist who developed structural and distributional linguistics; teacher of Noam Chomsky.
1909, Balta, Russian Empire — 1992, New York City, United States
United States
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Harris was an American linguist who developed structural and distributional methods of linguistic analysis and founded one of the first university linguistics departments in the United States, at Pennsylvania; his most famous student was Noam Chomsky. Born to a Jewish family in what is now Ukraine, he emigrated as a child and remained a lifelong Zionist active in Jewish causes.
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Linguist who developed structural and distributional linguistics; teacher of Noam Chomsky.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
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