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Panini

He lived -520 to -460 and wrote Sanskrit grammar that had phonetic system and word analysis.

Stoic linguists

Stoic linguists studied logic, rhetoric, etymology, language origins, and relations among nouns, verbs, and articles.

Patanjali

He wrote about Patanjali Yoga or Raja Yoga or Ashtanga Yoga, one of the Six Schools, Shad-Darsananas, or Classical Systems of Philosophy. Raja Yoga is meditation. Hiranyagarbha started Raja Yoga.

Bhakti Yoga is devotions, prayers, rituals, and worship. Jnana Yoga is using reason to become free of seeing differences. Karma Yoga is service to others.

Katyayana

He lived -200 to -140. He was in Aindra grammarian school and lived in northwest India.

Thrax D

He lived -170 to -90, was Stoic, and wrote comprehensive grammar.

Varro M

He lived -116 to -27.

Dyscolus A

He lived 100 to 200 and wrote about Greek syntax, starting systematic grammar study.

Donatus A

He taught St. Jerome.

Priscian

He was Greek and from Caesarea (Cherchell, Algeria).

Sibuyeh

He lived 760 to 793.

Sanskrit grammar

Twelve schools of grammatical theory developed, using phonetic systems and word analysis.

Biruni

He lived 973 to 1048, wrote grammar, and calculated latitude and longitude. He measured land in three dimensions {geodesy} {geodetics}.

Lancelot Arnauld

Lancelot lived 1616 to 1695. Arnauld lived 1612 to 1694.

Humboldt W

He lived 1767 to 1835, wrote about ethics, and studied language types. The three structural-language types differ in morphology and syntax. Sanskrit is syntactically more complex than modern languages.

Politics

States should ensure property and lives.

Neogrammarians

All sound changes follow rules, so certain phonetic laws are absolute. It included Karl Verner, Berthold Delbrück, August Leskien, Hermann Paul, Hermann Osthoff, Karl Brugmann, Eduard Sievers, and Wilhelm Braune.

Curme G

He lived 1860 to 1948 and wrote about syntax.

Jesperson O

He lived 1860 to 1943 and developed categorical grammar. Specific factors, such as maximum vocal-tract-constriction location, determine speech-sound articulation. Constriction completely closes for consonants like /p/. Nasal passage opens for consonants like /m/. Voicing onset time is immediate for /b/ but delayed for /p/.

Firth J

He lived 1890 to 1960 and developed prosodic analysis.

Bloomfield L

He lived 1887 to 1949 and was main developer of immediate constituent grammar and constituent structure.

Ajdukiewicz K

He lived 1890 to 1963, helped develop immediate constituent grammar, and was analytic philosopher. The same data can have more than one closed and coherent independent description {conventionalism} {radical conventionalism}, from which people can choose based on simplicity, aesthetics, usefulness, ease, or evidence. Two basic syntax categories are sentences and singular terms, which can combine.

Hjelmslev L

He lived 1899 to 1965 and developed categorical grammar.

Hockett C

He lived 1916 to 2001, was Bloomfield's student, and worked on transformational grammar.

Wells Ru

He lived 1919 to ?.

Fries C

He lived 1887 to 1967 and studied grammar.

Bar-Hillel Y

He lived 1915 to 1975 and helped develop immediate constituent grammar.

Harris Z

He lived 1909 to 1992 and developed transformational grammar.

Shaumyan S

He lived 1916 to 2006 and helped develop transformational grammar {applicative-generative grammar}.

Halle M

He lived 1923 to ?, was member of Prague School, and studied phoneme distinctive features.

Jakobson R

He lived 1896 to 1982, was member of Prague School, and studied phoneme distinctive features.

Chomsky N

He lived 1928 to ?, studied unconscious and innate language structures, and developed transformational grammar to explain how brain makes language structures. Newborn brain has innate linguistic rules {universal grammar, Chomsky}. Learning a particular language, which has words, sets limited-range linguistic parameters. Expressed language {E-language} depends on internal language {I-language}. Grammars assign structures {logical form} to sentences. Grammars can generate just language sentences {observationally adequate grammar}, give some structure to all sentences {descriptively adequate grammar}, or give structure used by speakers to all sentences {explanatorily adequate grammar}.

Lambek J

He lived 1922 to ? and helped develop immediate constituent grammar.

Partridge E

He lived 1894 to 1979.

Fodor J

He lived 1935 to ?. Putnam and Chomsky influenced him. He developed projection rules to try to formalize semantics and model semantic relations by syntax {proof theory, Fodor}. Brains think using symbol system with syntax and semantics {language of thought, Fodor} {mentalese, Fodor}.

However, mental language must also have meaning and syntax. If mental language is meaningful, then regular language is meaningful, so why have mental language.

Johnson D

He lived 1946 to ? and studied grammar.

Bickerton D

Animal calls and signs are structural wholes and have no component parts. Hawaiian immigrants spoke pidgin, and their children spoke creole. Creoles all over world are mostly similar to each other, possibly indicating universal grammar, which has same default settings for creole and young children.

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