Applied Linguistics and Ling.Online version Scholars and their contributions with the linguistics by Nathalie García 1 Scholars 2 Attributions Ferdinand de Saussure J.R. Firth Franz Boas Hymes Noam Chomsky Halliday “Children learn language when its use has a meaningful purpose for them” He established American descriptivist linguistic “Language is a closed system of structural relations” Language is performed in different contexts, with different people, topics, for different purposes Universal Grammar In1944 the first professor of linguistics in Great Britain