Zellig Harris

Zellig Sabbetai Harris ( born October 23, 1909 in Balta, Russian Empire; † 22 May 1992, New York City, USA) was an American linguist and information theorist. His creations include the Harris algorithm, with which can be calculated in a message, the exact information content of a character.

Writings

  • A Grammar of the Phoenician Language, dissertation, American Oriental Series, No. 8, 1936
  • Development of the Canaanite Dialects: An Investigation in Linguistic History. American Oriental Series, 16, 1939
  • From Morpheme to Utterance. Language 22:3.161-183, 1946
  • Methods in Structural Linguistics, 1951
  • String Analysis of Sentence Structure, 1962
  • Mathematical Structures of Language, 1968
  • Papers in Structural and Transformational Linguistics, 1970
  • Notes du Cours de syntax, 1976
  • Papers on Syntax, 1981
  • A Grammar of English on Mathematical Principles, 1982
  • Language and Information, 1988 ( ISBN 0-231-06662-7 )
  • Sublanguage Analysis of an immunology, 1989 ( ISBN 90-277-2516-0 ): ' The Form of Information in Science
  • A Theory of Language and Information: A Mathematical Approach, 1991 ( ISBN 0-19-824224-7 )
  • The Transformation of Capitalist Society, 1997 ( ISBN 0-8476-8412-1 )
  • The background of transformational and metalanguage analysis. Introduction to The Legacy of Zellig Harris: Language and information into the 21st Century: Vol 1: Philosophy of science, syntax, and semantics, John Benjamins Publishing Company ( CILT 228) 2002
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