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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 230,831 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Zellig Harris is the 134th most popular linguist (down from 128th in 2019), the 607th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 550th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Ukrainian Linguist.

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  • 230k

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Zellig Harris ranks 134 out of 161. Before him are Vasily Abaev, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Johan Nicolai Madvig, Robert Blust, Gaston Waringhien, and Felix Jacoby. After him are Alexander Veselovsky, Heinrich Schmid, Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Nurit Peled-Elhanan, Sylvain Lévi, and Gerhard Rohlfs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Zellig Harris ranks 234. Before him are Ciro Alegría, David Murray, Abdulrahman Fawzi, Luiz Luz, Tatiana Proskouriakoff, and Beb Bakhuys. After him are Carlo Agostoni, Karl Gruber, Peter Scott, Hilde Domin, Arvo Askola, and Cilly Aussem. Among people deceased in 1992, Zellig Harris ranks 169. Before him are Andrew Marton, Pumpuang Duangjan, Sandy Dennis, Iuliu Bodola, Jean Poiret, and Sergey Obraztsov. After him are Margarita Aliger, Suzanne Lilar, Joseph Arthur Ankrah, Giuseppe Olmo, Ferenc Karinthy, and Mordecai Ardon.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Zellig Harris ranks 607 out of 1,083. Before him are Mark Donskoy (1901), Valentina Lisitsa (1973), Jan Koum (1976), Mark Krein (1907), Nina Dumbadze (1919), and Heinrich Schenker (1868). After him are Viktor Tsybulenko (1930), Hélène Sparrow (1891), Igor Krutoy (1954), Margarita Aliger (1915), Oleksandr Zavarov (1961), and Andriy Pyatov (1984).

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Among LINGUISTS In Ukraine

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

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