Linguistics

was a Russian linguist and literary theorist.

Rasmus Kristian Rask (Danish: [ˈʁɑsmus ˈkʰʁestjæn ˈʁɑsk]; born Rasmus Christian Nielsen Rasch; 22 November 1787-14 November 1832) was a Danish linguist, philologist and a principal founder of the science of comparative linguistics.

Karl Friedrich Christian Brugmann ( BROOG-mən; né Brugman; 16 March 1849-29 June 1919) was a German linguist and one of the founders of the Neogrammarian school.

Hermann Otto Theodor Paul (August 7, 1846, Salbke, December 29, 1921, Munich) was a German philologist, linguist and lexicographer.

Berthold Gustav Gottlieb Delbrück (German pronunciation: [ˈbɛʁthɔlt ˈdɛl.bʁʏk] ; 26 July 1842-3 January 1922) was a German linguist who devoted himself to the study of the comparative syntax of the Indo-European languages.

Émile Benveniste (French: [emil bɛ̃venist]; 27 May 1902-3 October 1976) was an Ottoman-born French structural linguist and semiotician.

Born in Stanisławów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine), Kuryłowicz was a Polish historical linguist, structuralist and language theoretician, deeply interested in the studies of Indo-European languages.

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Jens Otto Harry Jespersen (; 16 July 1860-30 April 1943) was a Danish linguist who worked in foreign-language pedagogy, historical phonetics, and other areas, but is best known for his description of the grammar of the English language.

Paul Jules Antoine Meillet (; 11 November 1866-21 September 1936) was one of the most important French linguists of the early 20th century.

William David Labov ( ; December4, 1927December17, 2024) was an American linguist widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics.

Karl Adolph Verner (; 7 March 1846-5 November 1896) was a Danish linguist.

Franz Bopp (; 14 September 1791-23 October 1867) was a German linguist known for extensive and pioneering comparative work on Indo-European languages.

Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt (22 June 1767-8 April 1835) was a Prussian philosopher, linguist, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Zellig Sabbettai Harris ( ; October 23, 1909, May 22, 1992) was an American linguist, mathematical syntactician, and methodologist of science widely considered to have been influential in his fields.

Joseph Harold Greenberg (May 28, 1915, May 7, 2001) was an American linguist, known mainly for his work concerning linguistic typology and the genetic classification of languages.

Prince Nikolai Sergeyevich Trubetzkoy ( ; 16 April 1890-25 June 1938) was a Russian linguist and historian whose teachings formed a nucleus of the Prague School of structural linguistics.

Charles Francis Hockett (January 17, 1916, November 3, 2000) was an American linguist who developed many influential ideas in American structuralist linguistics.

Kenneth Lee Pike (June 9, 1912 - December 31, 2000) was an American linguist and anthropologist.

Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (13 April 1925-15 April 2018), often credited as M. A. K. Halliday, was a British linguist who developed the internationally influential systemic functional linguistics (SFL) model of language.

Dell Hathaway Hymes (June 7, 1927, in Portland, Oregon, November 13, 2009, in Charlottesville, Virginia) was a linguist, sociolinguist, anthropologist, and folklorist who established disciplinary foundations for the comparative, ethnographic study of language use.

Eugene Albert Nida (November 11, 1914August 25, 2011) was an American linguist who developed the dynamic equivalence theory of Bible translation and is considered one of the founders of modern translation studies.

Uriel Weinreich (, ; May 23, 1926, March 30, 1967) was a Polish and American linguist.

Morris Swadesh ( ; January 22, 1909, July 20, 1967) was an American linguist who specialized in comparative and historical linguistics, and developed his mature career at UNAM in Mexico.

Peter Nielsen Ladefoged ( , ; 17 September 1925-24 January 2006) was a British linguist and phonetician.

Calvert Ward Watkins (/ˈwɒtkɪnz/; March 13, 1933, March 20, 2013) was an American linguist and philologist, known for his book How to Kill a Dragon.

Joshua Fishman (Yiddish: שיקל פֿישמאַן, Shikl Fishman; July 18, 1926 - March 1, 2015) was an American linguist who specialized in the sociology of language, language planning, bilingual education, and language and ethnicity.

Charles Albert Ferguson (July 6, 1921, September 2, 1998) was an American linguist who taught at Stanford University.

William Dwight Whitney (February 9, 1827June 7, 1894) was an American linguist, philologist, and lexicographer known for his work on Sanskrit grammar and Vedic philology as well as his influential view of language as a social institution.

Bernard Sterling Comrie, (; born 23 May 1947) is a British linguist.

Morris Halle ( ; ; July 23, 1923, April 2, 2018) was a Latvian-born American linguist who was an Institute Professor, and later professor emeritus, of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Charles J. Fillmore (August 9, 1929, February 13, 2014) was an American linguist and Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Brian D. Joseph (born November 22, 1951) is an American linguist specializing in historical linguistics.

Jay Harold Jasanoff ( or ) is an American linguist and Indo-Europeanist, best known for his h2e-conjugation theory of the Proto-Indo-European verbal system.

René Paul Victor Kiparsky (born January 28, 1941) is a Finnish linguist and professor of linguistics at Stanford University.

Eric Pratt Hamp (November 16, 1920, February 17, 2019) was an American linguist widely respected as a leading authority on Indo-European linguistics, with particular interests in Celtic languages and Albanian.

Marianne Mithun ( ; born 1946) is an American linguist specializing in American Indian languages and language typology.

Mark Yoffe Liberman is an American linguist.

Stephen Robert Anderson (August 3, 1943, October 13, 2025) was an American linguist.

Ivan Andrew Sag (November 9, 1949, September 10, 2013) was an American linguist and cognitive scientist.

Laurence Robert Horn (born 1945) is an American linguist.

Ilse Lehiste ( ; 31 January 1922-25 December 2010) was an Estonian-born American linguist, author of many studies in phonetics.

Arthur Seymour Abramson (January 26, 1925 - December 15, 2017) was an American linguist, phonetician, and speech scientist.

Sandra Chung is an American linguist and distinguished professor emerita at the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

John Jerome Ohala (July 19, 1941, August 22, 2020) was a linguist specializing in phonetics and phonology.

Roger Wellington Shuy (born January 5, 1931) is an American linguist best known for his work in sociolinguistics and forensic linguistics.

David Michael Perlmutter (born 28 October 1938) is an American linguist and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego.

Emmon Bach (12 June 1929-28 November 2014) was an American linguist.

Sally McConnell-Ginet (born 1938) is an American linguist and Professor Emerita of Linguistics at Cornell University.

Geoffrey Keith Pullum (; born 8 March 1945) is a British and American linguist specialising in the study of English.

Lise Menn (née Lise J. Waldman, born December 28, 1941, in Philadelphia) is an American linguist who specializes in psycholinguistics, including the study of language acquisition and aphasia.

David William Lightfoot (born February 10, 1945) is an American linguist and academic.

Jerrold M. "Jerry" Sadock is an American linguist and Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Linguistics and the Humanities Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago.

John Russell Rickford (born September 16, 1949) is a Guyanese-American linguist.

Larry M. Hyman (born September 26, 1947) is an American linguist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Sandra Annear Thompson (born July 6, 1941) is an American linguist specializing in discourse analysis, typology, and interactional linguistics.

Elizabeth Closs Traugott (born April 9, 1939 in the UK) is an American linguist and professor emeritus of linguistics and English atStanford University.

Ellen F. Prince (February 29, 1944, October 24, 2010) was an American linguist, known for her work in linguistic pragmatics.

Gregory Ward is an American linguist, academic and researcher.

William Oliver Bright (August 13, 1928, October 15, 2006) was an American linguist and toponymist who specialized in Native American and South Asian languages and descriptive linguistics.

Harinath De (12 August 187730 August 1911) was an Indian linguist, polyglot, Indologist and an academician, who later became the first Indian librarian of the National Library of India (then Imperial Library) from 1907 to 1911. In a life span of thirty-four years, he learned 34 languages.

Salawat Abdrakhmanovich Gallyamov (December 24, 1959, September 5, 2018) was a Bashkir linguist, researcher, supporter of the theory of the Turanian origin of the Bashkir people.

In linguistics, the comparative method is a technique for studying the development of languages by performing a feature-by-feature comparison of two or more languages with common descent from a shared ancestor and then extrapolating backwards to infer the properties of that ancestor.

Structural linguistics, or structuralism, in linguistics, denotes schools or theories in which language is conceived as a self-contained, self-regulating semiotic system whose elements are defined by their relationship to other elements within the system.

Phonology (formerly also phonemics or phonematics) is the branch of linguistics that concerns how languages organize the foundational elements that make their words.

In linguistics, syntax ( SIN-taks) is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form well-formed larger units such as phrases and sentences.

Semantics is the study of linguistic meaning.

Historical linguistics, also known as diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of how languages change over time.

Dan Isaac Slobin (born May 7, 1939) is a professor emeritus of psychology and linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Walt Wolfram ( ; born February 15, 1941) is an American sociolinguist specializing in social and ethnic dialects of American English.

Shana Poplack, is a Distinguished University Professor in the linguistics department of the University of Ottawa and three-time holder of the Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Linguistics.

Judith Lillian Aissen (born 4 June 1948) is an American professor emerita in linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Peter W. Culicover is Professor of Linguistics at Ohio State University.

Andrew James Garrett (born 1961) is a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Lila Ruth Gleitman (December 10, 1929, August 8, 2021) was an American professor of psychology and linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Sarah "Sally" Thomason (; born 1939) is an American scholar of linguistics, Bernard Bloch distinguished professor emerita at the University of Michigan.

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was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian linguist

Mark Aronoff (; born January 1949) is a Canadian-American morphologist and distinguished professor emeritus at Stony Brook University.

Sheila Ellen Blumstein (born 1944) is professor emerita of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences at Brown University, where she was the Albert D. Mead Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences.