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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zellig Harris has received more than 256,400 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Zellig Harris is the 147th most popular linguist (down from 134th in 2019), the 729th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 604th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Ukrainian Linguist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Zellig Harris ranks 147 out of 214. Before him are Heinrich Schmid, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Brian Houghton Hodgson, Vladimir Toporov, Friedrich von Adelung, and William Dwight Whitney. After him are Gerhard Rohlfs, Sylvain Lévi, Alexander Veselovsky, Mary Boyce, Kazimieras Būga, and Martí de Riquer i Morera.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Zellig Harris ranks 279. Before him are Mohammad Ali Bogra, Reinhold Münzenberg, Vagn Holmboe, Carlo Agostoni, Saul Alinsky, and Massimo Pallottino. After him are Margaret Mee, Juan Carreño, Xie Fuzhi, Leo Sexton, Jean Batten, and Shōhei Ōoka. Among people deceased in 1992, Zellig Harris ranks 191. Before him are Gyula Polgár, Ion Bogdan, Freddie Bartholomew, Sergey Obraztsov, Roberto Bonomi, and István Balogh. After him are Brenda Marshall, Robert Berdella, Gino Rossetti, Vladas Mikėnas, Silviu Bindea, and Bo Lindman.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Zellig Harris ranks 729 out of 1,365. Before him are Serhiy Shaptala (1973), Eduard Mudrik (1939), Anatoliy Konkov (1949), Isaak Khalatnikov (1919), Ivan Kozlovsky (1900), and Vladimir Maslachenko (1936). After him are Yuri Malenchenko (1961), Pyotr Todorovsky (1925), Zinaida Turchyna (1946), Konstantin Lopushansky (1947), Natalya Meklin (1922), and Vasyl Barvinsky (1888).

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Among LINGUISTS In Ukraine

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

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