Linguistics, as defined by Edward Finegan, is the systematic inquiry into human language-into its structures and uses and the relationship between hem, as well as into the development and acquisition of language. Language, as defined by the Collegiate Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is a body or system of words and phrases used by a large community or by a people, a nation, or a group of nations. Most contemporary linguists work under the assumption that spoken language is more fundamental, and thus more important to study than writing (Linguistics). Some of these linguists intertwined the study of linguistics with other fields such as science and so forth. There are five men who have made a profound contribution to the study of linguistics: Leonard Bloomfield, Noam Chomsky, Martin Joos, Ferdinand de Saussure, and Edward Sapir.
             Leonard Bloomfield was a linguist that took an interest in the Germanic language and spent most of his time comparing and contrasting the language. Bloomfield became more interested in the description of languages and how they pertained to science and wrote the book Language. Bloomfield's book dealt with a standard text, and had a tremendous influence on other linguists. Bloomfield's book, Introduction to the Study of Language, was his first main book that came out in 1914. Bloomfield went on to publish many other books, Tagalog Texts with Grammatical Analysis (1917), Menomini Texts (1928), Language (1933), which was the book he is renowned for, The Stressed Vowels of American English (1935), and Linguistic Aspects of Science (1939) (Leonard Bloomfield).
             Linguist Noam Chomsky has made a profound contribution to linguistics. In 1957 Chomsky published a book entitled Syntactic Structures and is considered to be one of the intellectual achievers of the twentieth century. According to Chomsky, each human child has the ability to master grammar and deep structure of language. Chomsky did a...