Roman Jakobson, born on October 11, 1896 in Russia and died on July 18, 1982 in the United States, was one of the most outstanding linguists of the 20th century. He is renowned for his contributions to structuralism, transformational-generative grammar, and semiotics.
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“The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.”
Source: To honor Roman Jakobson: Essays on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, 11 October 1966
“Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.”
Source: Selected Writings: Word and Language
Source: Language in Literature
“Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.”
Source: Language in Literature
“Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.”