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'Thomas Albert Sebeok' (born in Budapest, Hungary, on November 9, 1920, died December 21, 2001 in Bloomington, Indiana) was one of the most prolific and wide-ranging of US semioticians.
He expanded the purview of semiotics to include non-human signaling and communication systems thus raising some of the issues addressed by philosophy of mind and coining the term "zoosemiotics".
He is also the creator of biosemiotics.
Based on his field of competence Sebeok tended to reject the experiments on the
putative linguistic abilities of apes, such as those described by David Premack, assuming the existence of a deeper, more universal and more meaningful
underlying substrate: the “semiotic function”.
In 1944, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.

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★ Indiana University School of Library and Information Science Press Release: Thomas A. Sebeok, Senior Fellow at SLIS, Passes On Obituary

★ The Estonian connection by Thomas A. Sebeok

★ Thomas Albert Sebeok: "Biologist Manqué" by John Deely