List of linguists
The following is a list of linguists, those who study linguistics.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
B
- Emmon Bach (1929-) American
- Zami Bahawalpuri
- Charles Bally (1865-1947) French
- Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (1915-1975) Israeli
- Manfred Bierwisch German
- Wilhelm Bleek (1827-1875) German
- Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949) American
- Franz Boas (1858-1942) American
- Dwight Bolinger (1907-1992) American
- Franz Bopp (1791-1867) German
- Jorge Luis Borges Argentinian
- Wilhelm Braune (1850-1926) German
- Michael Brody Hungarian/British
- Karl Brugmann (1849-1919) German
- Karl Bühler (1879-1963) German
- Alisson Burkett
C
- Monica Cantero
- Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) German
- John Chadwick (1902-1998) British (Linear B)
- Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832) French (Egyptian hieroglyphs)
- Noam Chomsky (1928-) American
- Guglielmo Cinque (1948-) Italian
- David Crystal
- Peter W. Culicover American
- Felice Coles
D
- Peter T. Daniels
- Donald Davidson (1917-) American
- Berthold Delbrück (1842-1922) German
- R. M. W. Dixon Australian
- Clement Martyn Doke (1893-1980) South African (Bantu languages)
- Ángela Downing
- Donald Dyer
E
- Umberto Eco (1932-) Italian
- Michael Everson (1963-) Irish (Writing systems)
- Daladier Anne (French)
F
G
- Gerald Gazdar (1950-) British
- Alexander Gode (German, American)
- Adele Goldberg
- Sidney Greenbaum (1929-1996) British
- Joseph H. Greenberg (1914-2001) American
- (Herbert) Paul Grice (1913-1988) British
- Jakob Grimm (1785-1863) German
H
- Harald Haarmann German
- Kenneth L. Hale (1934-2001) American
- Morris Halle (1923-) American
- Michael Halliday (1925-) British/Australian
- Zellig Harris (1909-1992) American
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (1906-1992) American
- Louis Hjelmslev (1899-1965) Danish
- Charles F. Hockett (1914-2000) American
- Wilhelm von Humboldt (1787-1835) German
- Rodney Huddleston British/Australian
- Richard Hudson (1939-) British
I
J
- Ray Jackendoff (1945-) American
- Vatroslav Jagić (1838 - 1923) Croatian
- Roman Jakobson (1896-1982) Russian
- Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) Danish
- Daniel Jones (1881-1967) British
- Sir William Jones (1746-1794) British
K
- Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (1787-1864) Serb
- Paul Kiparsky (1941-) American
- Yuri Knorosov (1922-) Russian (Mayan hieroglyphs)
- Alice Kober (1907-1950) British (Linear B)
- Henry Kucera (1925) Hungarian
L
- William Labov (1927-) American (founder of sociolinguistics)
- George Lakoff American
- Sidney Lamb (1929-) American
- Carl Richard Lepsius (1810-1884) German
- August Leskien (1840-1916) German
- Philip Locke
- Fred Lukoff (1920-2000) American (Korean language)
M
- Peter Matthews British
- Carl Meinhof (1857-1944) German
- Franc Miklošič (1813-1891) Slovene
- Richard Montague (1930-1971) American
- Susan Major
N
O
P
- Panini (some time between the 7th and 4th centuries BC) Indian
- Hermann Paul (1864-1940) German
- Holger Pedersen (1867-1953) Danish
- Kenneth L. Pike (1912-2000) American
- Paul Postal (1936-) American
- Geoffrey Pullum (1945-) British/American
Q
R
- Fran Ramovš (1890-1952) Slovene
- Luigi Rizzi (1952-) Italian
- Ian Roberts (1957-) British
- Alain Rouveret French
- Merritt Ruhlen American
S
- Ivan Sag American
- Geoffrey Sampson (1944-) British
- Edward Sapir (1884-1939) American
- Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) Swiss
- Archibald Henry Sayce (1845-1933) British (Akkadian)
- August Schleicher (1821-1868) German
- Johannes Schmidt (1843-1901) German
- John Searle (1932-) American
- Sequoyah (1760-1843) American (Cherokee)
- Sibawayh(i) (d.793) Persian
- Sievers, Eduard (1850-1932) German
- Suzuki Takao Japanese
- Morris Swadesh American
- Zdenko Škreb Croatian
T
- Deborah Tannen (1951-) American
- Julee Tate
- Eric Thompson (1898-1975) American
- Jože Toporišič (born 1926) Slovene
- Larry Trask (1944-2004) American
- Nikolai Sergeevich Trubetzkoy (1890-1938) Russian
U
V
- Teun A. Van Dijk
- Michael Ventris (1922-1956) British (Linear B)
- Jean-Roger Vergnaud French
- Karl Verner (1846-1896) Danish
W
- John Wells (1939- ) British phonetician and Esperantist
- Diedrich Westermann (1875-1956) German
- Ernst Oswald Johannes Westphal (1919-1990)
- Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941) American
- Anna Wierzbicka (1938-) Polish (originator of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage Theory)
- Nicholas Williams (1943-) (Irish and Cornish)
X
Y
Z
- L. L. Zamenhof (1859-1917) Polish (creator of the constructed language Esperanto)
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