Zellig
Zellig Harris (1909–1992) was an American linguist best known as a foundational figure in structural linguistics. He helped develop a distributional approach to language, arguing that the internal structure of a language could be inferred by examining the contexts in which linguistic elements occur. This emphasis on distributional analysis laid groundwork for later formal theories and influenced empirical study of language data.
Harris conducted extensive work across diverse languages and corpora, applying systematic methods to classify forms and
During his career, Harris taught at the University of Pennsylvania and was a central figure in American
Zellig Harris is remembered for contributing to the shift in linguistics toward empirical, distribution-based study and