Roman Jakobson, Russian-American linguist and theorist (died 1982)

Roman Jakobson

Russian linguist (1896–1982)

Roman Osipovich Jakobson was a Russian linguist and literary theorist. A pioneer of structural linguistics, Jakobson was one of the most celebrated and influential linguists of the twentieth century. With Nikolai Trubetzkoy, he developed revolutionary new techniques for the…