William Dwight Whitney                                     Jan Baudouin de Courtenay

                   Leonard Bloomfield                                           Andre Martinet

                    Louis Hjelmslev                                         M. A. K. Halliday
 
 
 

                        Roman Jakobson                                                      Emile Benveniste

                                                                                                                         Kenneth L. Pike

                      Eugene Nida                                           Zellig Harris

                  Claude Lévi-Strauss

                  Marcel Mauss                        Vladimir Propp
 

                 Georbes Dumézil                                             Calvert Watkins

                  Umberto Eco