1. United States linguist (born in Ukraine) who developed mathematical linguistics and interpreted speech and writing in a social context (1909-1992); [syn: Harris, Zellig Harris, Zellig Sabbatai Harris]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Zellig Harris
n 1: United States linguist (born in Ukraine) who developed
mathematical linguistics and interpreted speech and writing
in a social context (1909-1992) [syn: Harris, Zellig
Harris, Zellig Sabbatai Harris]