biography
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Hjelmslev, Louis (Trolle)
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pronunciation:
[hyelmzlev]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1899–1965)
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| biography:
| Linguist, born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He founded the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen in 1931, and was a co-founder of the journal Acta Linguistica in 1939. With associates in Copenhagen, he devised a system of linguistic analysis known as glossematics, based on the study of the distribution of, and the relationships between, the smallest meaningful units of a language (glossemes). This is outlined in his Prolegomena to a Theory of Language (1943). |
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