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.
A John Langshaw Austin (1911-1960) British
B Emmon Bach (1929-) American Zami Bahawalpuri Charles Bally (1865-1947) French Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (1915-1975) Israeli Alton Becker Manfred Bierwisch German Wilhelm Bleek (1827-1875) GermanBernard Bloch Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949) American Franz Boas (1858-1942) American Dwight Bolinger (1907-1992) American Franz Bopp (1791-1867) German Jorge Luis Borges Argentinian 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-) ItalianBernard Comrie David Crystal (1941-) British Peter W. Culicover American Felice Coles
D Vladimir Dahl Russian Anne Daladier (French) Donald Davidson (1917-) 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) Ángela Downing Donald Dyer
E Umberto Eco (1932-) Italian Michael Everson (1963-) American-Irish (Writing systems) F Charles J. Fillmore (1929-) American Danny Fox American Johannes Friedrich German
G Brent Galloway (1944–) Tamaz Gamkrelidze (1929-) Georgiann Gerald Gazdar (1950-) British Badri Gharib (Iranian Alexander Gode (German, American) Erving Goffman 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 GermanMary Haas 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 Irene Heim American/German (semantics) Louis Hjelmslev (1899-1965) Danish Charles F. Hockett (1914-2000) American Harry Hoijer Paul Hopper 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 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 Daniel Jones (1881-1967) British Sir William Jones (1746-1794) British
K Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (1787-1864) Serb Ahmad Kasravi (1890-1946) IranianM. 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) Angelika Kratzer American/German (semantics) Michael KraussAlfred L. Kroeber Henry Kucera (1925) Hungarian
L William Labov (1927-) American (founder of sociolinguistics) George Lakoff American Sidney Lamb (1929-) American Karl Richard Lepsius (1810-1884) German August Leskien (1840-1916) German Charles N. Li (Chinese) Lin Hua (Chinese) Philip Locke Fred Lukoff (1920-2000) American (Korean language)
M Pádraic I. M. MacUidhir Susan Major 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) SloveneMarianne Mithun Peter Matthews British Richard Montague (1930-1971) American Pamela Munro American
NJohanna Nichols Jerry Norman (Chinese)
O Hermann Osthoff (1847-1909) German Karel Oštir (1888-1973) 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 Kenneth L. Pike (1912-2000) American Predrag Piper Serbian (slavist) Paul Postal (1936-) American Alan S. Prince Ernst Pulgram Italic and Romance languages Geoffrey Pullum (1945-) British/American
Q Randolph Quirk British
R Fran Ramovš (1890-1952) Slovene Rasmus Christian Rask (1787-1832) Danish Norvin Richards American Luigi Rizzi (1952-) Italian Ian Roberts (1957-) British Háj John R. Ross American Alain Rouveret French Merritt Ruhlen American
S Harvey SacksJerrold Sadock Ivan Sag American Geoffrey Sampson (1944-) British 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 Sequoyah (1760-1843) American (Cherokee) Sibawayh(i) (d.793) Persian Eduard Sievers (1850-1932) German Donca Steriade American/Romanian Takao Suzuki Japanese Morris Swadesh American Zdenko Škreb Croatian
T Deborah Tannen (1951-) American Julee Tate Eric Thompson (1898-1975) AmericanLaurence C. Thompson Sandra A. Thompson (Chinese) J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973) British Jože Toporišič (born 1926) SloveneGeorge L. Trager Larry Trask (1944-2004) American Nikolai Sergeevich Trubetzkoy (1890-1938) Russian Peter Trudgill
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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
WJohn Wells (born 1939, British)Diedrich Westermann (1875-1956, German)Ernst Oswald Johannes Westphal (1919-1990)Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941, American)Anna Wierzbicka (born 1938, Polish)Nicholas Williams (born 1943, Irish and Cornish)Robert Dick Wilson (1856–1930, American)Walt Wolfram
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Y Victor Yngve (1920-) American Androula Yiakoumetti Cypriot
Z L. L. Zamenhof (1859-1917) Polish (creator of the constructed language Esperanto) 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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