List of linguists - Definition and Overview

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
• Manfred Bierwisch German
• Wilhelm Bleek (1827-1875) German
• 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)
• Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832) French (Egyptian hieroglyphs)
• Noam Chomsky (1928-) American
• Guglielmo Cinque (1948-) Italian
• David Crystal (1941-) British
• Peter W. Culicover American
• Felice Coles

D

• Vladimir Dahl Russian
• Donald Davidson (1917-) American
• 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)
• Daladier Anne (French)

F

• Charles J. Fillmore (1929-) American
• Danny Fox American
• Johannes Friedrich German

G

• Thomas Gamkrelidze (1929-) Georgian
• Gerald Gazdar (1950-) British
• Alexander Gode (German, American)
• 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

• Harald Haarmann German
• 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
• 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) Serb

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
• 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)
• Henry Kucera (1925) Hungarian

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

• Susan Major
• Nikolay Yakovlevich Marr (1864-1934), Russian/Georgian
• Carl Meinhof (1857-1944) German
• Franc Miklošič (1813-1891) Slovene
• Peter Matthews British

• Richard Montague (1930-1971) American
• Pamela Munro American

N

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
• David Pesetsky (1957-) American
• Kenneth L. Pike (1912-2000) American
• Predrag Piper Serbian (slavist)
• Paul Postal (1936-) American
• 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
• Alain Rouveret French
• Merritt Ruhlen American

S

• 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
• Sievers, Eduard (1850-1932) German
• Donca Steriade American/Romanian
• Suzuki Takao Japanese
• Morris Swadesh American
• Zdenko Škreb Croatian

T

• Deborah Tannen (1951-) American
• Julee Tate
• Eric Thompson (1898-1975) American
• 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 (Linear B)
• Jean-Roger Vergnaud French
• Karl Verner (1846-1896) Danish

W

• John Wells (1939- ) British phonetician and Esperantist
• 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-) (Irish and Cornish)

X

Y

• Victor Yngve (1920-) American

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)