Mark Bloch (linguist)
Mark Yakovlevich Bloch (Russian: Марк Яковлевич Блох; 16 August 1924 – 16 September 2022)
Bloch’s main fields of research included English language theory, general, typological and German linguistics, translation theory, and linguodidactics. He wrote over 200 scientific works, including the monographs "Theoretical English Grammar"[2] and "The Theoretical Bases of Grammar".[3] Bloсh has also founded a scientific school of communicative-paradigmatic linguistics.[4] Bloch introduced the concept of "dictema" into grammar as an elementary situational-thematic unit of the text.