death_date death_place birth_place influences image_size nationality workplaces birth_date known_for article_title name alma_mater
3 november 2000 ithaca , ny , united states columbus , ohio , united states leonard bloomfield 80px american cornell university , rice university 17 january 1916 contributions to structural linguistics and linguistic anthropology charles f. hockett
 charles francis hockett ohio state university , yale university
charles f. hockett

charles francis hockett -lrb- january 17 , 1916 -- november 3 , 2000 -rrb- was an american linguist who developed many influential ideas in american structuralist linguistics .
he represents the post-bloomfieldian phase of structuralism often referred to as `` distributionalism '' or `` taxonomic structuralism '' .
his academic career spanned over half a century at cornell and rice universities .
