Home›Linguistics›Era›By Century›20th centuryBrowse By20th centuryThis dimension groups scientists by the era in which they worked. Wikipedia notes that "it was not until the 19th century that the term scientist came into regular use," a term coined long after many of the people the atlas now calls scientists had already done their work. Browsing by era lets a visitor compare scientists active in the same period.Facts20th centurySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonField EstablishedWell-attested1847 120th centuryFilter Results58 entriesDisciplineAllLinguistics (3)Field (legacy)AllAmerican Indian languages and language typology (1)Comparative and historical linguistics (1)Formal semantics (1)Generative linguistics (1)Historical linguistics (1)Indo-European languages and the languages of California (1)Indo-European linguistics, Celtic languages and Albanian (1)Indo-European studies and historical linguistics (1)Linguistics (25)Linguistics (syntax) (1)Linguistics and phonetics (1)Linguistics and statistical linguistics (1)Linguistics, phonetics, speech science (1)Linguistics, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology (1)Mayan languages, syntax, morphology (1)Morphology (1)Neural basis of speech and language processing (1)Phonetics and phonology (1)Phonology, generative grammar (1)Pragmatics and semantics (1)Psycholinguistics (2)Psychology and linguistics (2)Sociolinguistics (1)Sociolinguistics (sociology of language) (1)Sociolinguistics, forensic linguistics (1)Structural linguistics and semiotics, Indo-European studies (1)Syntax of English and the Romance languages (1)Syntax, phonology (1)Usage-based phonology, grammaticalization (1)In GroupAllComputational Linguistics (6)Historical And Comparative Linguistics (3)Other Linguists (5)Phonology And Phonetics (15)Psycholinguistics (7)Semantics And Pragmatics (4)Sociolinguistics (7)Syntax And Generative Grammar (11)NationalityAllCanada (1)Finland (1)France (2)United Kingdom (2)United States (43)BrowseCompareSelect all 58Andre Martinet20th centuryAndrew Garrett20th centuryArnold Zwicky20th centuryArthur S. Abramson20th centuryBarbara Partee20th centuryBrian D. Joseph20th centuryCalvert Watkins20th centuryCharles A. Ferguson20th centuryCharles Hockett20th centuryD. Terence Langendoen20th centuryDan Slobin20th centuryDavid Lightfoot20th centuryDavid M. Perlmutter20th centuryDell Hymes20th centuryElizabeth Closs Traugott20th centuryEllen F. Prince20th centuryEmile Benveniste20th centuryEmmon Bach20th centuryEric P. Hamp20th centuryEugene Nida20th centuryGeoffrey Pullum20th centuryGeorge Kingsley Zipf20th centuryIlse Lehiste20th centuryJanet Dean Fodor20th centuryJoan Bresnan20th centuryJoan Bybee20th centuryJoan Maling20th centuryJohn Goldsmith20th centuryJohn Ohala20th centuryJohn Rickford20th centuryJoseph Greenberg20th centuryJoshua Fishman20th centuryJudith Aissen20th centuryKenneth Pike20th centuryKeren Rice20th centuryLarry M. Hyman20th centuryLaurence R. Horn20th centuryLila Gleitman20th centuryLise Menn20th centuryMarianne Mithun20th centuryMark Aronoff20th centuryMichael E. Krauss20th centuryMichael Halliday20th centuryMorris Swadesh20th centuryNoam Chomsky20th centuryPaul J. Chapin20th centuryPaul Kiparsky20th centuryPeter Ladefoged20th centuryRichard S. Kayne20th centuryRoger Shuy20th centurySandra A. Thompson20th centurySarah G. Thomason20th centurySheila Blumstein20th centuryStephen R. Anderson20th centuryUriel Weinreich20th centuryWilliam Bright20th centuryWilliam Labov20th centuryZellig Harris20th centurySources1. Wikipedia: Linguisticstier 2WikipediaLinguistics, Etymology sectionQuote, Linguistics, Etymology sectionAlthough the term linguist in the sense of "a student of language" dates from 1641, the term linguistics is first attested in 1847.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.