Roman Jakobson
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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.
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Yakobson before 1917
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Velimir Khlebnikov
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Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov, better known by the pen name Velimir Khlebnikov, was a Russian poet and playwright, a central part of the Russian Futurist movement, but his work and influence stretch
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…in Russia between 1912 and 1920, when, as a young student, he fell under the spell of the celebrated Russian futurist wordsmith and linguistic thinker Velimir Khlebnikov. Offering a slightly different picture, the preface to the second edition of The Sound Shape of Language argues that this book represents the fourth…
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Velimir Khlebnikov, painted in 1910 by Mikhail Larionov
Khlebnikov in 1913