Modern linguists

The following is a list of linguists, those who study linguistics.

A

B

• Emmon Bach (1929-) American
• Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949) American
• Franz Boas (1858-1942) American
• Franz Bopp (1791-1867) German

C

• Noam Chomsky (1928-) American

D

• Micheal DeGraff

E

G

• (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
• Irene Heim American/German (semantics)
• Louis Hjelmslev (1899-1965) Danish

I

• Sabine Iatridou (1958-) American/Greek
• Pavle Ivić (1924-1999) Serb

J

• Ray Jackendoff (1945-) American
• Roman Jakobson (1896-1982) Russian
• Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) Danish
• Kyle Johnson
• Daniel Jones (1881-1967) British

K

• Paul Kiparsky (1941-) American
• Đorđe Kostić (1909-1995) Serbian (speech recognition and machine translation in analogue technology, phonetics and phonology, etc.; surrealist)
• Angelika Kratzer American/German (semantics)

L

• William Labov (1927-) American (founder of sociolinguistics)
• George Lakoff American
• Fred Lukoff (1920-2000) American (Korean language)

M

• Peter Matthews British
• John H. McWhorter

N

O

• Hermann Osthoff (1847-1909) German
• Karel Oštir (1888-1973) Slovene
• Marc Okrand - Klingon Language

P

• Holger Pedersen (1867-1953) Danish
• David Pesetsky (1957-) American
• Kenneth L. Pike (1912-2000) American
• Predrag Piper Serbian (slavist)
• Christopher Potts

Q

R

• Norvin Richards American

S

• Edward Sapir (1884-1939) American
• Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) Swiss
• Irena Sawicka Polish
• Johannes Schmidt (1843-1901) German
• John Searle (1932-) American
• Donca Steriade American/Romanian
• Suzuki Takao Japanese
• Morris Swadesh American

T

• Deborah Tannen (1951-) American
• Julee Tate
• Eric Thompson (1898-1975) American
• Larry Trask (1944-2004) American

U

V

W

• John Wells (1939- ) British phonetician and Esperantist
• Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941) American
• Anna Wierzbicka (1938-) Polish (originator of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage Theory)

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