On scholars

Many scholars have contributed to the study of language. Chomsky is often considered the originator of modern linguistics, but the ancient Indian grammarian Panini uses a very similar exact and rule-based approach in his analysis of Sanskrit.

Ferdinand Saussure is another important person who developed further such concepts as "synchronic" vs "diachronic" and "syntagmatic" vs "paradigmatic"

Roman Jakobsson introduced the study of how information is packaged and transmitted in language and the relation of this to grammar.

Leonard Bloomfield was the father of American Structural Linguistics, a school that described many Native American languages and developed further the hierarchical units of language, like phonemes and morphemes.