Zellig Sabbettai Harris (/ˈzɛlɪɡ/; October 23, 1909 – May 22, 1992) was an influential American linguist, mathematical syntactician, and methodologist...
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integrating the concepts of transformation (pioneered by his mentor Zellig Harris, but used in a precise and integrative way by Chomsky), morphophonemic...
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1908. Chomsky adopted the concept of transformation from his teacher Zellig Harris, who followed the American descriptivist separation of semantics from...
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for analyzing sentence structure in the distributionalist works of Zellig Harris and Charles F. Hockett, and in glossematics by Knud Togeby. The practice...
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to provide a scientific basis for syntax as independent of meaning. Zellig Harris defined 'distribution' as follows. “The DISTRIBUTION of an element is...
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Ugarit: dating and grammar. Butzon & Bercker. p. 506. ISBN 3788713372. Zellig Harris (1939). Development of the Cannanite dialects: an investigation in linguistic...
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was first proposed by Noam Chomsky in 1970 reformulating the ideas of Zellig Harris (1951), and further developed by Ray Jackendoff (1974, 1977a, 1977b)...
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structuralism by making its own modifications of the model. In 1946, Zellig Harris introduced transformational generative grammar which excluded semantics...
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through conversations with the linguist Zellig Harris, whom he first met in a political circle in 1947. Harris introduced Chomsky to the field of theoretical...
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prominent Jewish intellectuals, including Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Zellig Harris, and Sidney Hook signed an open letter to The New York Times. The letter...
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