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

 * Anvita Abbi Indian South Asian Linguistics Typology
 * William Foxwell Albright
 * Mark Aronoff
 * John Langshaw Austin (1911-1960) British

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
 * Byron Bender
 * Benjamin K.Bergen
 * Roger Berry British
 * Rajesh Bhatt Indian Hindi-Urdu Kashmiri Syntax
 * Derek Bickerton (1926-)
 * Manfred Bierwisch German
 * Wilhelm Bleek (1827-1875) German
 * Bernard Bloch
 * Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949) American
 * Sheila Blumstein
 * Robert Blust
 * Franz Boas (1858-1942) American
 * Jonathan Bobaljik
 * Paul Boersma
 * Dwight Bolinger (1907-1992) American
 * Franz Bopp (1791-1867) German
 * Željko Bošković
 * John Bowring (1792-1872) British
 * Wilhelm Braune (1850-1926) German
 * Michael Brody (1954-) Hungarian/British
 * Karl Brugmann (1849-1919) German
 * Ranko Bugarski Serbian sociolinguist
 * Karl Bühler (1879-1963) German
 * Alisson Burkett

C

 * Lyle Campbell
 * Monica Cantero
 * Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) German
 * Robyn Carston
 * John Chadwick (1902-1998) British (Linear B)
 * Wallace Chafe
 * Paul Chilton
 * Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832) French (Egyptian hieroglyphs)
 * Noam Chomsky (1928-) American
 * Guglielmo Cinque (1948-) Italian
 * Wes Collins (Hispanic Linguistics, Mam)
 * Bernard Comrie
 * Jean-Claude Coquet
 * Annabel Cormack
 * William Croft
 * Megan Crowhurst
 * David Crystal (1941-) British
 * Peter W. Culicover American
 * Felice Coles

D

 * Vladimir Dahl Russian
 * Amy Dahlstrom
 * Anne Daladier (French)
 * Probal Dasgupta Indian South Asian Linguistics
 * Donald Davidson (1917-2003) American
 * Veneeta Dayal Indian South Asian Linguistics Semantics
 * Ali Akbar Dehkhoda (1879–1959) Iranian
 * Berthold Delbrück (1842-1922) German
 * Otto Dempwolff (1871-1938) German
 * R. M. W. Dixon (1939-) British/Australian
 * Josef Dobrovský Czech
 * Clement Martyn Doke (1893-1980) South African (Bantu languages)
 * Aharon Dolgopolsky (1930-) Russian/Israeli
 * Patricia Donegan American
 * Edgardo Donovan (1974-) American/Italian
 * Ángela Downing
 * Konrad Duden German
 * Donald Dyer

E

 * Umberto Eco (1932-) Italian
 * Murvet Enc
 * Desiderius Erasmus
 * Michael Everson (1963-) American-Irish (Writing systems)
 * Colin J. Ewen (1951-) English, Scots, Dutch (Phonology)

F

 * Salifu Faal The Gambia
 * Charles J. Fillmore (1929-) American
 * Franck Floricic French, Italian
 * Michael Forman
 * Danny Fox American
 * Johannes Friedrich German

G

 * Brent Galloway (born 1944)
 * Tamaz Gamkrelidze (born 1929) Georgian
 * Gerald Gazdar (born 1950) British
 * Badri Gharib (Iranian)
 * Anastasia Giannakidou
 * Heinz Giegerich (German)
 * Andrew Goatly British
 * Alexander Gode (German, American)
 * Adele Goldberg
 * Rosa A. Gonzalez (linguist) (born 1959), (Ecuadorian)
 * George Grace
 * Sidney Greenbaum (1929-1996) British
 * Joseph Greenberg (1914-2001) American
 * (Herbert) Paul Grice (1913-1988) British
 * Jakob Grimm (1785-1863) German
 * Yosef Grodzinsky
 * John Gumperz

H

 * Harald Haarmann German
 * Mary Haas
 * Kenneth L. Hale (1934-2001) American
 * Morris Halle (1923-) American
 * Michael Halliday (1925-) British/Australian
 * John Peabody Harrington
 * James Harris (1709-1780)
 * John Harris
 * Roy Harris (1931-) British
 * Zellig Harris (1909-1992) American
 * John Hawkins
 * Sarah Hawkins
 * Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (1906-1992) American
 * Valerie Hazan
 * Irene Heim American/German (semantics)
 * Randall Hendrick
 * Luc Herman Belgian
 * Daniel Hirst (1946-) British/French (speech prosody)
 * Louis Hjelmslev (1899-1965) Danish
 * Charles F. Hockett (1914-2000) American
 * Harry Hoijer
 * Harry Hollien
 * Paul Hopper
 * Norbert Hornstein
 * Jill House
 * Bedřich Hrozný (1879-1952) Czech
 * Mark Huckvale
 * Wilhelm von Humboldt (1787-1835) German
 * Rodney Huddleston British/Australian
 * Richard Hudson (1939-) British
 * Dell Hymes American

I

 * Sabine Iatridou (1958-) American/Greek
 * Vladislav Illich-Svitych (1934-1966) Russian/Ukrainian
 * Frances Ingemann
 * Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov (born 1929), Russian
 * Pavle Ivić (1924-1999) Serbian

J

 * Ray Jackendoff (1945-) American
 * Vatroslav Jagić (1838 - 1923) Croatian
 * Roman Jakobson (1896-1982) Russian
 * Jay Jasanoff American (Indo-European)
 * Katarzyna Jaszczolt Polish
 * KA Jayaseelan Indian South Asian Linguistics Syntax
 * Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) Danish
 * Jimmy Mello ( 1979 ) Brazil
 * 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
 * Paul Kay American
 * Patricia Keating
 * Michael Kenstowicz
 * Ayesha Kidwai Indian Hindi-Urdu Syntax
 * M. Dale Kinkade
 * Paul Kiparsky (born 1941) Finnish/American
 * Yuri Knorosov (1922—1999) Russian (Maya hieroglyphics)
 * 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
 * Stephen Krashen
 * Angelika Kratzer American/German (semantics)
 * Michael Krauss
 * Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (born 1929)Indian Dravidian Linguistics
 * Alfred L. Kroeber
 * Henry Kucera (born 1925) Hungarian
 * Deny Arnos Kwary (born 1975) Indonesian

L

 * William Labov (born 1927) American (founder of sociolinguistics)
 * Peter Ladefoged
 * Itziar Laka
 * George Lakoff American
 * Robin Lakoff
 * Sydney Lamb (born 1929) American
 * Richard Larson
 * Howard Lasnik
 * Karl Richard Lepsius (1810–1884) German
 * August Leskien (1840–1916) German
 * Fran Levstik (1831 - 1881) Slovenia
 * Charles N. Li (Chinese)
 * Yafei Li
 * Alvin Liberman
 * Mark Liberman
 * David Lightfoot
 * Lin Hua (Chinese)
 * John Lipski
 * Philip Locke
 * Fred Lukoff (1920–2000) American (Korean language)

M

 * Monica Macaulay
 * Marlys Macken
 * Miura Tsutomu (1911-1989) |Japanese
 * Pádraic I. M. MacUidhir
 * Ian Maddieson
 * Anoop Mahajan Indian Hindi-Urdu Syntax
 * Susan Major
 * Sean Mann, American expert in Korean dialect
 * Alec Marantz
 * Nikolay Yakovlevich Marr (1864-1934), Russian/Georgian
 * André Martinet
 * Joan Mascaro
 * Peter Matthews (born 1934) British
 * John J. McCarthy
 * James D. McCawley
 * John McWhorter American, expert on creole languages
 * Carl Meinhof (1857-1944) German
 * Franc Miklošič (1813-1891) Slovene
 * Carl Mills (1942-2003) American
 * Ken Miner
 * Jason Merchant
 * Marianne Mithun
 * Richard Montague (1930-1971) American
 * Motoori Norinaga (1730-1801) Japanese philologist of the Edo period.
 * Pamela Munro American
 * Radhika Mamidi ,Pragmatics and Computational Linguistics,India

N

 * Ádám Nádasdy
 * Johanna Nichols
 * Francis Nolan
 * Jerry Norman (Chinese)
 * Jon Nissenbaum

O

 * William O'Grady
 * Hermann Osthoff (1847-1909) German
 * Karel Oštir (1888-1973) Slovene
 * Janez Orešnik Slovene
 * Marc Okrand - Klingon Language
 * Walter J. Ong - American
 * Öner Özçelik - Turkish

P

 * Pāṇini (some time between the 7th and 4th centuries BC) Indian
 * Barbara Partee
 * Hermann Paul (1864-1940) German
 * Andrew Pawley
 * Holger Pedersen (1867-1953) Danish
 * Mario Pei (1901-1978) Italian-American
 * David Pesetsky (1957-) American
 * Ann Peters
 * Robert Phillipson (1942-) British
 * Janet Pierrehumbert
 * Kenneth L. Pike (1912-2000) American
 * Predrag Piper Serbian (slavist)
 * Jean-Yves Pollock
 * Giovanni Pontiero
 * 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

 * Randolph Quirk British

R

 * Fran Ramovš (1890-1952) Slovene
 * Robert Rankin
 * Eduardo Raposo
 * Rasmus Christian Rask (1787-1832) Danish
 * Charles Read
 * Kenneth Rehg
 * Lawrence A. Reid
 * Norvin Richards American
 * Luigi Rizzi (1952-) Italian
 * Ian Roberts (1957-) British
 * Sara Thomas Rosen
 * Háj John R. Ross American
 * Malcolm Ross
 * Alain Rouveret French
 * Merritt Ruhlen American
 * Mihaj N. Radan Romanian

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
 * Wilhelm Schmidt (1868-1954) German
 * Russell Schuh
 * John Searle (1932-) American
 * Elizabeth Selkirk
 * Sequoyah (1760-1843) American (Cherokee)
 * Joan Sereno
 * Sibawayh(i) (d.793) Persian
 * Eduard Sievers (1850-1932) German
 * Neil Smith
 * Paul Smolensky
 * Dominique Sportiche
 * David Stampe American
 * Stanley Starosta American
 * Luc Steels Belgian
 * Donca Steriade American/Romanian
 * Karumuri Venkata Subbarao Indian South Asian Languages Syntax
 * Takao Suzuki Japanese
 * Morris Swadesh American
 * Zdenko Škreb Croatian

T

 * Leonard Talmy
 * Deborah Tannen (1951-) American
 * Julee Tate
 * Bruce Tesar
 * Eric Thompson (1898-1975) American
 * Laurence C. Thompson
 * Sandra A. Thompson (Chinese)
 * Tokieda Motoki (1900-1967) Japanese
 * 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

 * J. Marshall Unger (1947-) American (Japanese)
 * Juan Uriagereka Spain Basque

V

 * Hans van de Koot
 * Teun A. Van Dijk
 * George van Driem Dutch, expert on Tibeto-Burman languages
 * Robert Van Valin%2C Jr.
 * Max Vasmer (1886-1962) Russian/German
 * Michael Ventris (1922-1956) British (Linear B)
 * Jean-Roger Vergnaud French
 * Karl Verner (1846-1896) Danish
 * Valentin Voloshinov Russian
 * Alexander Vovin born Russian, naturalized American

W

 * Gregory Ward
 * Gerigje Catharina Wakker (born 1985, Dutch)
 * John Wells (born 1939, British)
 * Paul Werth (British)
 * John Westbury
 * Diedrich Westermann (1875-1956, German)
 * Ernst Oswald Johannes Westphal (1919-1990)
 * Lydia White
 * Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941, American)
 * Henry Widdowson (British)
 * Anna Wierzbicka (born 1938, Polish)
 * Edwin Williams
 * Nicholas Williams (born 1943, Irish and Cornish)
 * David Willis
 * Deirdre Wilson
 * Robert Dick Wilson (1856–1930, American)
 * Walt Wolfram
 * Arok Wolvengrey
 * Alison Wray

Y

 * Yamada Yoshio Japanese
 * Victor Yngve (1920-) American
 * Androula Yiakoumetti Cypriot
 * Moira Yip
 * Richard Young

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)
 * Arnold Zwicky

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