Poll: Who's the greatest linguist of all time?

Who's the greatest linguist of all time?

Noam Chomsky
Michael Lewis
Dr Johnson
Noah Webster
Michael Swan
Deborah Tannen

Votes: 371
Comments: 10
Added: August 2003

 

Comments:

Richard - 30th April 2006 08:23
This poll is biased.
 
virve - 23rd January 2007 07:27
Noam, not Naom Chomsky. Biased? Quite right, that's why I voted for Deborah.
 
Tdol - 23rd January 2007 10:59
Virve,
Thank you for spotting the typo; I have corrected it. And, yes, the poll is unbelievably biased. :)
 
Dan - 7th July 2007 08:50
I'm sort of amazed that Noah Webster is in third place, after all the shenanigans he pulled with the English language.
 
jeff - 11th December 2007 06:04
He is a famous linguist in the field of linguistics esp in TG grammar. I am interestes in his universal grammar.
 
Raby - 24th January 2008 18:21
Chomsky is the god father of the transformational grammar he aimed to make grammar seems so flexible and he was followed by many other linguists.
 
Jannelle - 23rd October 2008 17:26
Noam Chomsky? The greatest left-wing pig out there...Classic choice.
 
Tony - 30th April 2009 05:27
I'm so happy that Halliday didn't even get a look in. What a charlatan. As for left-wing pigs, I'll take one of them over a right-wing pig any day.
 
djaileb farida - 18th May 2009 19:11
Chomsky is the best.We have learned much from him.COMPETENCE AND PERFORMANCE PAVED THE WAY TO DIDACTIC APPROACHES AND TO COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE.the planning of courses are based on his thoughts.
 
asdf - 31st October 2009 13:19
Uh... where's David Crystal?
 
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