Timeline of discovery of basic linguistics concepts When were the basic concepts first described and by whom? Ancient Sanskrit grammarians Ancient Greek study of language Roman elaborations of Greek study Medieval philosophical work in Latin Beginnings of modern linguistics in the 19th century Behaviorism and mental tabula rasa hypothesis Chomsky and functionalism Generative grammar leads to generative phonology and semantics Alternate syntactic systems develop in 80s Computational linguistics becomes feasible the late 80s Neurolinguistics and the biological basis of cognition 
Timeline of discovery of basic linguistics concepts When were the basic concepts first described and by whom? Ancient Sanskrit grammarians Ancient Greek study of language Roman elaborations of Greek study Medieval philosophical work in Latin Beginnings of modern linguistics in the 19th century Behaviorism and mental tabula rasa hypothesis Chomsky and the cognitive revolution The Linguistics Wars Compositional formal semantics arises from the work of Richard Montague and Barbara Partee Alternate syntactic systems develop in 80s Computational linguistics becomes feasible the late 80s Neurolinguistics and the biological basis of cognition Deep learning in the 2010s
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functionalism Generative grammar leads to generative phonology and semantics
the cognitive revolution The Linguistics Wars Compositional formal semantics arises from the work of Richard Montague and Barbara Partee
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Deep learning in the 2010s