The
Copenhagen School, officially the
Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen (
French:
Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague), is a group of scholars dedicated to the study of
linguistics. It was founded by
Louis Hjelmslev (1899–1965) and
Viggo Brøndal (1887–1942). In the mid twentieth century the Copenhagen school was one of the most important centres of
linguistic structuralism together with the
Geneva School and the
Prague School. In the late 20th and early 21st century the Copenhagen school has turned from a purely structural approach to linguistics to a
functionalist one,
Danish functional grammar, which nonetheless incorporates many insights from the founders.