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Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.

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The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.

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Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.

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Roman Jakobson

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Born: October 11, 1896
Died: July 18, 1982 (aged 85)
Bio: Roman Osipovich Jakobson was a Russian American linguist and literary theorist.
Known for:
  1. Fundamentals of Language (1956)
  2. On Language
  3. The framework of language (1980)
  4. Language in Literature (1980)
  5. Verbal art, verbal sign, verbal time

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