List of linguists
Redirected from List of famous 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)