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Zellig Harris

1909 - 1992

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Zellig Sabbettai Harris (; October 23, 1909 – May 22, 1992) was an influential American linguist, mathematical syntactician, and methodologist of science. Originally a Semiticist, he is best known for his work in structural linguistics and discourse analysis and for the discovery of transformational structure in language. These developments from the first 10 years of his career were published within the first 25. His contributions in the subsequent 35 years of his career include transfer grammar, string analysis (adjunction grammar), elementary sentence-differences (and decomposition lattices), algebraic structures in language, operator grammar, sublanguage grammar, a theory of linguistic information, and a principled account of the nature and origin of language. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Zellig Harris is the 171st most popular linguist (down from 147th in 2019), the 826th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 729th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Ukrainian Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Zellig Harris ranks 171 out of 214. Before him are Vladimir I. Georgiev, Waldemar Rosenberger, Martí de Riquer i Morera, John Lyons, Andrey Zaliznyak, and Göran Malmqvist. After him are Vyacheslav Ivanov, Henry Sweet, Henry Liddell, Gideon Toury, Robert Blust, and Sergei Starostin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Zellig Harris ranks 327. Before him are Johnny Mercer, Marjorie Clark, Hermann Paul Müller, Sabir Yunusov, Octacílio, and Giuseppe Viani. After him are Roberto Battaglia, Katherine Dunham, Giovanni Palatucci, Ken Uehara, Bill Carr, and Paul A. Baran. Among people deceased in 1992, Zellig Harris ranks 222. Before him are Morris Kline, Brenda Marshall, William Schuman, Paul Winter, Jan Flinterman, and László Szabados. After him are Andor Földes, Per Olof Sundman, Neville Brand, Ron Woodroof, Luis Rosales, and Sven Delblanc.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Zellig Harris ranks 826 out of 1,365. Before him are Natalia Poklonskaya (1980), Yuriy Lutsenko (1964), Henry Lehrman (1886), Ariel Durant (1898), Andriy Yermak (1971), and Estas Tonne (1975). After him are Volodymyr Kaplychnyi (1944), Yan Gamarnik (1894), Elena Yakovleva (1961), Valeriy Pidluzhnyy (1952), Vadim Abdrashitov (1945), and Iryna Vilde (1907).

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Among LINGUISTS In Ukraine

Among linguists born in Ukraine, Zellig Harris ranks 6. Before him are Edgar de Wahl (1867), Vasili Eroshenko (1890), Ahatanhel Krymsky (1871), Aleksander Brückner (1856), and Alexander Potebnja (1835). After him are Vladislav Illich-Svitych (1934).

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