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