List of linguists
Appearance
The following is a list of linguists.
A
B
- Emmon Bach (1929-) American
- Charles Bally (1865-1947) French
- Wilhelm Bleek (1827-1875) German
- Franz Boas (1858-1942) American
- Dwight Bolinger (1907-1992) American
- Franz Bopp (1791-1867) German
- Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949) American
- Wilhelm Braune (1850-1926) German
- Michael Brody Hungarian/British
- Karl Brugmann (1849-1919) German
- Karl Bühler (1879-1963) German
C
- Monica Cantero
- Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) German
- Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832) French
- Noam Chomsky (1928-) American
- Guglielmo Cinque (1948-) Italian
- Peter W. Culicover American
D
- Donald Davidson (1917-) American
- Berthold Delbrück (1842-1922) German
- Clement Martyn Doke (1893-1980) South African
- Ángela Downing
E
F
G
- Gerald Gazdar (1950-) British
- 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
- 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
- Richard Hudson (1939-) British
I
J
- Ray Jackendoff (1945-) American
- Roman Jakobson (1896-1982) Russian
- Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) Danish
- Daniel Jones (1881-1967) British
- Sir William Jones (1746-1794) British
K
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
N
O
P
- Panini (some time between the 7th and 4th centuries BCE)
- 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
S
- William Safire (1929-) American (editor of a New York Times column on language and linguistics)
- Ivan Sag American
- Edward Sapir (1884-1939) American
- Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) Swiss
- August Schleicher (1821-1868) German
- Johannes Schmidt (1843-1901) German
- John Searle (1932-) American
- Sibawayh(i) (d.793) Persian
- Sievers, Eduard (1850-1932) German
T
- Deborah Tannen (1915-) American
- Julee Tate
- 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
- Jean-Roger Vergnaud French
- Karl Verner (1846-1896) Danish
W
- 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-) Specialist in Irish and Cornish
X
Y
Z
- L. L. Zamenhof (1859-1917) Polish (creator of the constructed language Esperanto)