For 10 points, name this creator of the distinctive features theory of phonology, who, along with people like Ren?Wellek and Nicholas Trubetskoy, was a leader of the Prague School of Linguistics.
This thinker noted that aphasia can occur across either the syntagmatic or paradigmatic axis, and can involve either word combination or vocabulary substitution. He postulated the Gesamtbedeutung and Grundbedeutung, or invariant and contextually specific meaning, of morphological constructs, which he used to analyze his native language's case system in terms of directionality, marginality, and quantification. This man came up with six functions of communication, including context and code, in his expansion of Karl B?hler's Organon-model. One of his theories, put forth in Preliminaries to Speech Analysis, states that each phoneme can be described by possessing or lacking certain qualities. For 10 points, name this creator of the distinctive features theory of phonology, who, along with people like Ren?Wellek and Nicholas Trubetskoy, was a leader of the Prague School of Linguistics.
This thinker noted that aphasia can occur across either the syntagmatic or paradigmatic axis, and can involve either word combination or vocabulary substitution.
Roman Osipovich Jakobson