He was a scholar of Russian origin, he took his first degree, in oriental languages, at Moscow University. As a pioneer of the structural analysis of language which became the dominant trend of 20th century linguistics, Jakobson was among the most influential linguistic of the century.
Influenced by the work of Saussure he developed with Trubetzkoy techniques for the analysis of sound systems in languages inaugurating the discipline of phonology.
He went on to apply the same techniques of analysis to syntax and morphology and proposed that they might be extended to semantics.
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