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Roman Jakobson
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Roman Osipovich Jakobson (October 11, 1896 – July 18, 1982) was a Russian-born American linguist.
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Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.
"On Linguistic Aspects of Translation", p. 236, in On Translation (1959), ed. Reuben A. Brower, Harvard University Press, pp. 232–239.
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Category:1896 births
Category:1982 deaths
Category:Linguists from Russia
Category:Academics from Russia
Category:Immigrants to the United States