Kenneth L. Pike (June 9, 1912 - December 31, 2000) was an American linguist and anthropologist, the originator of the theory of tagmemics and coiner of the terms "emic" and "etic". From 1947 to 1979 he was the first president of the Summer Institute of Linguistics. Beginning in 1957, he also developed the constructed language Kalaba-X for use in teaching the theory and practice of translation.
