Year Key figure % do not recognize % recognize, but can't ID % recognize and can ID % recognize (with or without ID)
500 BC Panini 69 8 23 31
429 BC Plato 2 64 34 98
384 BC Aristotle 3 71 26 97
116 BC Marcus Terentius Varro 90 5 5 10
300 AD Aelius Donatus 93 6 1 7
804 AD Sibawayh 93 2 5 7
1612 AD Arnauld, Antoine 91 6 3 9
1632 AD Locke, John 6 76 18 94
1709 AD Johnson, Samuel 50 28 22 50
1714 AD Condillac, Etienne Bonot de 94 5 1 6
1736 AD Horne Tooke, John 94 5 1 6
1744 AD Herder, Johann Gottfried 89 10 1 11
1767 AD von Humboldt, Wilhelm 54 34 13 47
1772 AD von Schlegel, Wilhelm F 66 31 3 34
1785 AD Grimm, Jakob 26 18 55 73
1823 AD Müller, Max 60 35 6 41
1824 AD Broca, Paul 31 9 61 70
1827 AD Whitney, William Dwight 83 10 7 17
1837 AD Murray, James 85 12 3 15
1845 AD Sweet, Henry 71 16 13 29
1849 AD Brugmann, Karl 74 22 4 26
1857 AD Saussure, Ferdinand de 11 13 76 89
1860 AD Jespersen, Otto 50 34 16 50
1881 AD Jones, Daniel 82 8 10 18
1884 AD Sapir, Edward  17 10 73 83
1887 AD Bloomfield, Leonard 28 34 38 72
1890 AD Firth, J. R. 72 22 6 28
1896 AD Vygotsky, Lev 61 17 22 39
1896 AD Jakobson, Roman 31 30 39 69
1899 AD Hjelmslev, Louis 83 11 6 17
1911 AD Austin, John 78 10 12 22
1912 AD Pike, Kenneth 72 20 8 28
1913 AD Grice, H. P. 40 7 53 60
1915 AD Greenberg, Joseph H. 55 17 28 45
1926 AD Foucault, Michel 29 40 32 72
1926 AD Halliday, M. A. K. 56 26 18 44
1927 AD Labov, William 12 14 74 88
1928 AD Chomsky, Noam 0 3 97 100
1932 AD Searle, John   56 24 20 44
1934 AD Hale, Kenneth 49 28 20 48
1938 AD McCawley, James 80 14 6 20
1942 AD Lakoff, Robin 30 27 43 70
1945 AD Jackendoff, Ray 42 29 28 57
1958 AD Cameron, Deborah 76 9 15 24