Zellig S. Harris (1909–1992)
Author of Structural linguistics
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Works by Zellig S. Harris
Associated Works
Philosophy of science, syntax, and semantics language and information into the 21st century (2002) — Contributor — 2 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Harris, Zellig Sabbettai
- Birthdate
- 1909-10-23
- Date of death
- 1992-05-22
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University of Pennsylvania
- Occupations
- linguist
- Organizations
- University of Pennsylvania
- Relationships
- Chomsky, Noam (student)
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- Pennsylvania, USA
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This teacher of Noam Chomsky was teaching about transforms back in the 1930s. In this final statement of his views about language, he completes the formula begun by Bertram Russell, "mathematics=language," with the formula "language=mathematics." In short, Harris treats statements of grammar as if they were mathematical theorems, and applies rules to those rules just as if they were steps in a proof of the theorem, which, in effect, they are. Very cool. By the way, it is this property of show more language that allows FaceBook and other computer programs to work! show less
The practical application of Harris' mathematical grammar to a specific language.
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- Rating
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- ISBNs
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