List of linguists

The following is a list of linguists.

Adele Goldberg
Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993) British
August Schleicher (1821 - 1868) German
Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897 - 1941) American
Carl Meinhof (1857 - 1944) German
Carl Richard Lepsius (1810 - 1884) German
Charles F. Hockett (1914 - 2000) American
Clement Martyn Doke (1893 - 1980) South African
Deborah Tannen American
Diedrich Westermann (1875 - 1956) German
Dwight Bolinger (1907 - 1992) American
Edward Sapir (1884 - 1939) American
Ernst Oswald Johannes Westphal (1919 - 1990)
Ferdinand de Saussure (1857 - 1913) Swiss
Fran Ramovš (1890 - 1952) Slovene
Franz Boas (1858 - 1942) American
Franz Bopp (1791 - 1867) German
Franc Miklošič (1813 - 1891) Slovene
Fred Lukoff (1920 - 2000) American (Korean language)
Holger Pedersen (1867 - 1953) Danish
Jakob Grimm (1785 - 1863) German
Jean-Fran�ois Champollion (1790 - 1832) French
Joseph H. Greenberg (1914 - 2001) American
Jože Toporišič (born 1926) Slovene
Karel Oštir (1888 - 1973) Slovene
Karl Verner (1846 - 1896) Danish
Kenneth L. Hale (Ken) (1934 - 2001) American
Kenneth L. Pike (1912 - 2000) American
L. L. Zamenhof (1859 - 1917) Polish (creator of the constructed language Esperanto)
Leonard Bloomfield (1887 - 1949) American
Michael Halliday (1925 - ) Australian
Michael Ventris (1922 - 1956) British
Morris Halle (1923 - ) American (phonologist)
Noam Chomsky (1928 - ) American
Otto Jespersen (1860 - 1943) Danish
Panini (sometime during 7th - 4th centuries BCE) - the man who started it all with his analysis of Sanskrit in ancient India
Roman Jakobson (1896 - 1982) Russian
Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (1906 - 1992) American
Sidney M. Lamb (born 1929) American
Umberto Eco (1932 - ) Italian
Victor Yngve (1920 - ) American
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (1787 - 1864) Serb
Sir William Jones (1746 - 1794) British
William Labov (1927 - ) American (founder of sociolinguistics)
William Safire (1929 - ) American (editor of a New York Times column on language and linguistics)
Zellig Harris (1909 - 1992) American