Harris Zellig

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.

Harris zellig. 1992 was a noted linguist whose work contributed to american anthropology methodologies of scientific research and linguistic information. Zellig sabbettai harris october 23 1909 may 22 1992 was a renowned american linguist mathematical syntactician and methodologist of science. The term discourse analysis was first used by the sentence linguist zellig harris in his 1952 article entitled discourse analysis. Harris source material on the work of zellig harris in language information applied mathematics and the foundations of linguistics.

Zellig harris s dream of a secular leftist zionism built on cooperation with the indigenous arab population has been dashed by history. In 1995 robert barsky met with noam chomsky to discuss hiswork in progress noam chomsky. Zellig sabbettai harris october 23 1909 may 22 1992 was an influential american linguist mathematical syntactician and methodologist of science. He graduated from the university of pennsylvania and joined the faculty there in 1931.

Zellig sabbettai 1909 1992 title. 23 1909 balta russia died may 22 1992 new york n y u s russian born american scholar known for his work in structural linguistics. But his legacy stubbornly survives not only in the pioneering work he did in the field of linguistics but also in the inspiration he provided noam chomsky the most outspoken political gadfly of our day. Harris was born in russia and was taken to the united states as a child of four.

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. Harris zellig sabbetaiharris zellig sabbetai 1909 1992 u s. A life of dissent mit press 1997. In addition he made contributions to worker self management zionism and efforts to transform capitalist society in the direction of scientific socialism.

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