List of linguists
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| Lexical semantics |
| Structural semantics |
| Prototype semantics |
| Stylistics |
| Prescription |
| Pragmatics |
| Applied linguistics |
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| Cognitive linguistics |
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| List of linguists |
The following is a list of linguists, those who study linguistics. See modern linguists for those whose work follows the program of structural linguists.
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B
- Emmon Bach (1929-) American
- Zami Bahawalpuri
- Mark Baker
- Charles Bally (1865-1947) French
- Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (1915-1975) Israeli
- Jan Niecislaw Baudouin de Courtenay (1845-1929) Polish
- Alton Becker
- Mary Beckman
- Adriana Belletti
- Derek Bickerton (1926-)
- Manfred Bierwisch German
- Wilhelm Bleek (1827-1875) German
- Bernard Bloch
- Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949) American
- Sheila Blumstein
- Franz Boas (1858-1942) American
- Jonathan Bobaljik
- Paul Boersma
- Dwight Bolinger (1907-1992) American
- Franz Bopp (1791-1867) German
- John Bowring (1792-1872) British
- Wilhelm Braune (1850-1926) German
- Michael Brody Hungarian/British
- Karl Brugmann (1849-1919) German
- Ranko Bugarski Serbian sociolinguist
- Karl Bühler (1879-1963) German
- Alisson Burkett
C
- Monica Cantero
- Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) German
- John Chadwick (1902-1998) British (Linear B)
- Wallace Chafe
- Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832) French (Egyptian hieroglyphs)
- Noam Chomsky (1928-) American
- Guglielmo Cinque (1948-) Italian
- Bernard Comrie
- David Crystal (1941-) British
- Peter W. Culicover American
- Felice Coles
D
- Vladimir Dahl Russian
- Amy Dahlstrom
- Anne Daladier (French)
- Donald Davidson (1917-2003) American
- Ali Akbar Dehkhoda (1879–1959) Iranian
- Berthold Delbrück (1842-1922) German
- R. M. W. Dixon Australian
- Clement Martyn Doke (1893-1980) South African (Bantu languages)
- Aharon Dolgopolsky (1930-) Russian/Israeli
- Ángela Downing
- Donald Dyer
E
F
- Charles J. Fillmore (1929-) American
- Danny Fox American
- Johannes Friedrich German
- Fran Levstik (1831 - 1881) Slovenian
G
- Brent Galloway (1944–)
- Tamaz Gamkrelidze (1929-) Georgian
- Gerald Gazdar (1950-) British
- Badri Gharib (Iranian)
- Heinz Giegerich (German)
- Alexander Gode (German, American)
- Adele Goldberg
- Sidney Greenbaum (1929-1996) British
- Joseph Greenberg (1914-2001) American
- (Herbert) Paul Grice (1913-1988) British
- Jakob Grimm (1785-1863) German
- John Gumperz
H
- Harald Haarmann German
- Mary Haas
- Kenneth L. Hale (1934-2001) American
- Morris Halle (1923-) American
- Michael Halliday (1925-) British/Australian
- James Harris
- Zellig Harris (1909-1992) American
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (1906-1992) American
- Irene Heim American/German (semantics)
- Randall Hendrick
- Louis Hjelmslev (1899-1965) Danish
- Charles F. Hockett (1914-2000) American
- Harry Hoijer
- Harry Hollien
- Paul Hopper
- Norbert Hornstein
- Wilhelm von Humboldt (1787-1835) German
- Rodney Huddleston British/Australian
- Richard Hudson (1939-) British
I
- Sabine Iatridou (1958-) American/Greek
- Vladislav Illich-Svitych (1934-1966) Russian/Ukrainian
- Frances Ingemann
- Pavle Ivić (1924-1999) Serbian
J
- Ray Jackendoff (1945-) American
- Vatroslav Jagić (1838 - 1923) Croatian
- Roman Jakobson (1896-1982) Russian
- Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) Danish
- Keith Johnson
- Daniel Jones (1881-1967) British
- Sir William Jones (1746-1794) British
- Allard Jongman
- Brian Joseph
- Dan Jurafsky
K
- Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (1787-1864) Serb
- Ahmad Kasravi (1890-1946) Iranian
- Michael Kenstowicz
- M. Dale Kinkade
- Paul Kiparsky (1941-) American
- Yuri Knorosov (1922-) Russian (Mayan hieroglyphs)
- Alice Kober (1907-1950) British (Linear B)
- Đorđe Kostić (1909-1995) Serbian (speech recognition and machine translation in analogue technology, phonetics and phonology, etc.; surrealist)
- Hilda Koopman
- Angelika Kratzer American/German (semantics)
- Michael Krauss
- Alfred L. Kroeber
- Henry Kucera (1925) Hungarian
L
- William Labov (1927-) American (founder of sociolinguistics)
- Peter Ladefoged
- Itziar Laka
- George Lakoff American
- Robin Lakoff
- Sidney Lamb (1929-) American
- Richard Larson
- Howard Lasnik
- Karl Richard Lepsius (1810-1884) German
- August Leskien (1840-1916) German
- Charles N. Li (Chinese)
- Yafei Li
- Alvin Liberman
- David Lightfoot
- Lin Hua (Chinese)
- John Lipski
- Philip Locke
- Fred Lukoff (1920-2000) American (Korean language)
M
- Monica Macaulay
- Marlys Macken
- Pádraic I. M. MacUidhir
- Ian Maddieson
- Susan Major
- Alec Marantz
- Joan Mascaro
- Nikolay Yakovlevich Marr (1864-1934), Russian/Georgian
- André Martinet
- Peter Matthews British
- John J. McCarthy
- James D. McCawley
- Carl Meinhof (1857-1944) German
- Franc Miklošič (1813-1891) Slovene
- Ken Miner
- Marianne Mithun
- Peter Matthews British
- Richard Montague (1930-1971) American
- Pamela Munro American
N
O
- Hermann Osthoff (1847-1909) German
- Karel Oštir (1888-1973) Slovene
- Janez Orešnik Slovene
- Marc Okrand - Klingon Language
P
- Panini (some time between the 7th and 4th centuries BC) Indian
- Hermann Paul (1864-1940) German
- Holger Pedersen (1867-1953) Danish
- Mario Pei (1901)-1978) Italian-American
- David Pesetsky (1957-) American
- Janet Pierrehumbert
- Kenneth L. Pike (1912-2000) American
- Predrag Piper Serbian (slavist)
- Jean-Yves Pollock
- Rebecca Posner
- Paul Postal (1936-) American
- Dennis Preston
- Alan S. Prince
- Ernst Pulgram Italic and Romance languages
- Geoffrey Pullum (1945-) British/American
- Clifton Pye
- Thomas Pyles
Q
R
- Fran Ramovš (1890-1952) Slovene
- Robert Rankin
- Eduardo Raposo
- Rasmus Christian Rask (1787-1832) Danish
- Norvin Richards American
- Luigi Rizzi (1952-) Italian
- Ian Roberts (1957-) British
- Sara Thomas Rosen
- Háj John R. Ross American
- Alain Rouveret French
- Merritt Ruhlen American
S
- Harvey Sacks
- [Hiralal Shukla][Semiotica Indica][India]
- Jerrold Sadock
- Ivan Sag American
- Joseph Salmons
- Geoffrey Sampson (1944-) British
- Beatrice Santorini
- Edward Sapir (1884-1939) American
- Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) Swiss
- Irena Sawicka Polish
- Archibald Henry Sayce (1845-1933) British (Akkadian)
- August Schleicher (1821-1868) German
- Johannes Schmidt (1843-1901) German
- John Searle (1932-) American
- Elizabeth Selkirk
- Sequoyah (1760-1843) American (Cherokee)
- Joan Sereno
- Sibawayh(i) (d.793) Persian
- Eduard Sievers (1850-1932) German
- Paul Smolensky
- David Stampe American
- Donca Steriade American/Romanian
- Takao Suzuki Japanese
- Morris Swadesh American
- Zdenko Škreb Croatian
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- Deborah Tannen (1951-) American
- Julee Tate
- Bruce Tesar
- Eric Thompson (1898-1975) American
- Laurence C. Thompson
- Sandra A. Thompson (Chinese)
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973) British
- George L. Trager
- Larry Trask (1944-2004) American
- Lisa Travis
- Nikolai Sergeevich Trubetzkoy (1890-1938) Russian
- Peter Trudgill
U
V
- Teun A. Van Dijk
- Max Vasmer (1886-1962) Russian/German
- Michael Ventris (1922-1956) British (Linear B)
- Jean-Roger Vergnaud French
- Karl Verner (1846-1896) Danish
- Valentin Volosinov Russian
W
- Gregory Ward
- John Wells (born 1939, British)
- John Westbury
- Diedrich Westermann (1875-1956, German)
- Ernst Oswald Johannes Westphal (1919-1990)
- Lydia White
- Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941, American)
- Anna Wierzbicka (born 1938, Polish)
- Edwin Williams
- Nicholas Williams (born 1943, Irish and Cornish)
- Robert Dick Wilson (1856–1930, American)
- Walt Wolfram
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Henry Widdowson (British)
Y
Z
- Karen Zagona
- L. L. Zamenhof (1859-1917) Polish (creator of the constructed language Esperanto)
- Raffaella Zanuttini
- Draga Zec
- Ghil'ad Zuckermann Israeli/British (originator of the theory that "Israeli", his term for "Modern Hebrew", is a Semito-European hybrid language)
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