created by:

 Karen Abigail González Torres

                  Kinverly Tatiana Martínez Carpio

                  Karla Noemy Pérez Barrera

Melvin Oswaldo Flores Arias

Noam Chomsky

1. He is known as the father of modern linguistics.

2. He development of transformational. grammar and innate grammar theory.

3. He also benefited the field of psychology.

4. Chomsky in linguistics comparing his initial formulation of generative grammar with the syntax approach of his structuralist predecessors

Steven Pinker

1.he research visual perception, psycholinguistics, and interpersonal relationships.

2.he contributed to the theories of communication and human being.

3.he said that linguistics is the science of language.

4.He said that Language is an evolutionary adaptation and is also made up of parts, in the part of the brain, since it has different functions.

ENOCH POWELL

1. He created the book A LEXICON TO HERODOTUS in the year 1938.

2. He has made contributions to linguistics about education.

ROLAND BARTHES

2. Later he developed a properly semiological investigation, with a special interest in linguistics.

3. Barthes was deeply influenced by linguistics and the philosophy of language when it came to analyzing images (whether in a text or in a photograph, film, etc).

4. Roland Barthes is often associated with the introduction of structural linguistics into literary study.

5. Roland Barthes demonstrated that the nature of the "expanded" and "prolonged" potential of the literary form.

1. He contributed linguistics to the transdisciplinarity of cultural studies.

NOAH WEBSTER

1. He graced grammar with the book: A Grammatical Institute of the English Language.

2. He made a contribution to the language with his dictionary under the title An American Dictionary of the English Language in the year 1828.

Ferdinand de Saussure

1- Saussure was a Swiss linguist and semiotician.

2-His ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in both linguistics and semiology in the 20th century. one of two major founders (together with Charles Sanders Peirce) of semiotics/semiology.

3- Saussure examines the relationship between speech and the evolution language, and investigates languages as a structured system of signs.

He was born on November, 26 1857 Geneva, Switzerland

He was died on February, 22 1913 at his 55 years old

Ronald Wardhaugh

Ronald Wardhaugh born on 1932 Canada

• Well known for his book "An introduction to Sociolinguistics"
• He addresses some of the fundamental issues in sociolinguistics.
• Wardhaugh titled languages as Dialects and Varieties

Joseph Greenberg

Joseph Greenbery was born on May 28, 1915 in Brooklyn, New York.

• Greenberg´s reputation rests partly on his contributions to synchronic linguistics and the quest to identify linguistic universal.
• Like Noam Chomsky, Greenberg sought to discover the universal structures on which human language is based.

Otto jespersen

Otto Jespersen (1860-1943), a Danish linguist, developed the theory of grammar and the grammar of English. He proposes three principles of classification - meaning, form, and function. His theory is set out in "The Philosophy of Grammar" (1924). It removes the parts of speech from the syntax, is based on the concepts of ranks and brings the concept of context to the forefront of the attention.

His major contributions to linguistics is his classification of Indigenous languages ​​of the Americas.

played an important role in developing the modern concept of the phoneme and phonology.

Before Sapir it was generally considered impossible to apply the methods of historical linguistics to languages ​​of indigenous peoples.

Edward Sapir

Edward Sapir, (born January 26, 1884, Lauenburg, Pomerania, Germany [now Lębork, Poland] —died February 4, 1939, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. ).

He was a founder of ethnolinguistics, which considers the relationship of culture to language, he was also a principal developer of the American (descriptive) school of structural linguistics.

He studied Germanic linguistics at Columbia, where he came under the influence of Franz Boas, who inspired him to work on Native American languages. 

With his linguistic background, Sapir became the one student of Boas to develop most completely the relationship between linguistics and anthropology. 

his major contributions to linguistics is his classification of Indigenous languages of the Americas, upon which he elaborated for most of his professional life. 

Before Sapir it was generally considered impossible to apply the methods of historical linguistics to languages of indigenous peoples because they were believed to be more primitive than the Indo-European languages. Sapir was the first to prove that the methods of comparative linguistics were equally valid when applied to indigenous languages.

LEONARD BLOOMFIELD

Contributions:

Bloomfield was an American linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s. His influential textbook Language, published in 1933.

Present a comprehensive description of American structural linguistics. He made significant contributions to Indp-European historical linguistics, the description of Austronesian language, and description of language of the Algonquian family.

KARL BRUGMANN