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List of linguists
The following is a list of
linguists
.
Adele Goldberg
Anthony Burgess
(
1917
-
1993
)
British
August Schleicher
(
1821
-
1868
)
German
Benjamin Lee Whorf
(
1897
-
1941
)
American
Carl Meinhof
(
1857
-
1944
)
German
Carl Richard Lepsius
(
1810
-
1884
)
German
Charles F. Hockett
(
1914
-
2000
)
American
Clement Martyn Doke
(
1893
-
1980
)
South African
Deborah Tannen
American
Diedrich Westermann
(
1875
-
1956
)
German
Dwight Bolinger (
1907
-
1992
)
American
Edward Sapir
(
1884
-
1939
)
American
Ernst Oswald Johannes Westphal
(
1919
-
1990
)
Ferdinand de Saussure
(
1857
-
1913
)
Swiss
Fran Ramovš (
1890
-
1952
)
Slovene
Franz Boas
(
1858
-
1942
)
American
Franz Bopp
(
1791
-
1867
)
German
Franc Miklošič
(
1813
-
1891
)
Slovene
Fred Lukoff (
1920
-
2000
)
American
(
Korean language
)
George Lakoff
American
Holger Pedersen
(
1867
-
1953
)
Danish
Jakob Grimm
(
1785
-
1863
)
German
Jean-François Champollion
(
1790
-
1832
)
French
Joseph H. Greenberg
(
1914
-
2001
)
American
Jože Toporišič (born
1926
)
Slovene
Karel Oštir (
1888
-
1973
)
Slovene
Karl Verner
(
1846
-
1896
)
Danish
Kenneth L. Hale (Ken) (
1934
-
2001
)
American
Kenneth L. Pike
(
1912
-
2000
)
American
L. L. Zamenhof
(
1859
-
1917
)
Polish
(creator of the
constructed language
Esperanto
)
Leonard Bloomfield
(
1887
-
1949
)
American
Michael Halliday
(
1925
- )
Australian
Michael Ventris
(
1922
-
1956
)
British
Morris Halle (
1923
- )
American
(
phonologist
)
Noam Chomsky
(
1928
- )
American
Otto Jespersen
(
1860
-
1943
)
Danish
Panini
(sometime during 7th - 4th centuries BCE) - the man who started it all with his analysis of
Sanskrit
in ancient
India
Roman Jakobson
(
1896
-
1982
)
Russian
Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
(
1906
-
1992
)
American
Sidney M. Lamb
(born
1929
)
American
Umberto Eco
(
1932
- )
Italian
Victor Yngve (
1920
- )
American
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić
(
1787
-
1864
)
Serb
Sir William Jones
(
1746
-
1794
)
British
William Labov
(
1927
- )
American
(founder of
sociolinguistics
)
William Safire
(
1929
- )
American
(editor of a
New York Times
column on language and linguistics)
Zellig Harris
(
1909
-
1992
)
American