List of linguists

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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) German
Bernard 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-) Italian
Bernard 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-) Georgian
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 German
Mary 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

K

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (1787-1864) Serb
Ahmad Kasravi (1890-1946) Iranian
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)
Angelika Kratzer American/German (semantics)
Michael Krauss
Alfred 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) Slovene
Marianne Mithun
Peter Matthews British
Richard Montague (1930-1971) American
Pamela Munro American

N

Johanna 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 Sacks
Jerrold 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) American
Laurence C. Thompson
Sandra A. Thompson (Chinese)
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973) British
Jože Toporišič (born 1926) Slovene
George L. Trager
Larry Trask (1944-2004) American
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

W

John 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

X

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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