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Roman Jakobson

1896 - 1982

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Roman Osipovich Jakobson (Russian: Рома́н О́сипович Якобсо́н, IPA: [rɐˈman ˈosʲɪpəvʲɪt͡ɕ (j)ɪkɐpˈson]; 11 October [O.S. 29 September] 1896 – 18 July 1982) was a Russian linguist and literary theorist. A pioneer of structural linguistics, Jakobson was one of the most celebrated and influential linguists of the twentieth century. With Nikolai Trubetzkoy, he developed revolutionary new techniques for the analysis of linguistic sound systems, in effect founding the modern discipline of phonology. Jakobson went on to extend similar principles and techniques to the study of other aspects of language such as syntax, morphology and semantics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Roman Jakobson is the 10th most popular linguist (down from 7th in 2019), the 88th most popular biography from Russia (down from 73rd in 2019) and the most popular Russian Linguist.

Roman Jakobson is most famous for his work in linguistics. He was a professor of Slavic languages and literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is most famous for his work on the six functions of language, which are phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Roman Jakobson ranks 10 out of 214. Before him are Patanjali, Noam Chomsky, Max Müller, William James Sidis, Noah Webster, and Mahmud al-Kashgari. After him are Mesrop Mashtots, Rasmus Rask, Leonard Bloomfield, Franz Bopp, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, and Jost Gippert.

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Among people born in 1896, Roman Jakobson ranks 10. Before him are Georgy Zhukov, Lev Vygotsky, André Breton, Imre Nagy, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, and Tristan Tzara. After him are Antonin Artaud, Gerty Cori, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Robert S. Mulliken, and Klement Gottwald. Among people deceased in 1982, Roman Jakobson ranks 11. Before him are Romy Schneider, Ingrid Bergman, Philip Noel-Baker, Henry Fonda, Carl Orff, and Anna Freud. After him are Arthur Rubinstein, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Khalid of Saudi Arabia, Philip K. Dick, William Giauque, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Roman Jakobson ranks 88 out of 3,761. Before him are Stanislav Petrov (1939), Boris Godunov (1552), Feodor I of Russia (1557), Nadezhda Krupskaya (1869), Alexandra Kollontai (1872), and Martti Ahtisaari (1937). After him are Sergey Lavrov (1950), Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (1904), Andrei Rublev (1360), Olga Constantinovna of Russia (1851), Alexis of Russia (1629), and Vasily Arkhipov (1926).

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Among LINGUISTS In Russia

Among linguists born in Russia, Roman Jakobson ranks 1. After him are Algirdas Julien Greimas (1917), Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890), Gabdulkhay Akhatov (1927), Yevgeny Polivanov (1891), Igor M. Diakonoff (1914), Vladimir Toporov (1928), Alexander Veselovsky (1838), Waldemar Rosenberger (1848), Andrey Zaliznyak (1935), Vyacheslav Ivanov (1929), and Sergei Starostin (1953).

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