Notable Linguists
Below a list of linguists who all published a book or books in the field of Linguistics.Linguistics is the scientific study of natural language. Before the twentieth century the term 'philology' was commonly used.
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Abramson, Arthur S.
Adams, Douglas Q.
Adler, George J.
Aikhenvald, Alexandra Yurievna
Aitken, Adam Jack
Albright, William Foxwell
Alleyne, Mervyn Coleridge
Aoun, Joseph
Aronoff, Mark
Ascoli, Graziadio Isaia
Austin, John Langshaw
B
Bach, Emmon
Baker, Mark
Bally, Charles
Bar-Hillel, Yehoshua
Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen
Barker,, Philip Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman
Barlow, Robert Hayward
Barnhart, David K.
Barnhart, Robert
Barsky, Robert
Bartlett, John Russell
Baudouin de Courtenay, Jan Niecislaw
Beckman, Mary E.
Beckwith, Christopher
Bellugi, Ursula
Bender, M. Lionel
Berlitz, Charles Frambach
Berlitz, Maximilian Delphinius
Bhartrihari
Bickerton, Derek
Bleek, Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel
Bloch, Bernard
Bloch, Jules
Bloomfield, Leonard
Boas, Franz
Boersma, Paul
Bolinger, Dwight Le Merton
Bomhard, Allan R.
Bopp, Franz
Bowerman, Melissa
Boyd, Julian Charles
Bresnan, Joan
Bright, William
Brody, Michael
Brugmann, Karl
Bucholtz, Mary
Burgess, Anthony
Burling, Robbins
Burridge, Kate
Butzkamm, Wolfgang
C
Campbell, Lyle
Cardona, George
Carnap, Rudolf
Carnie, Andrew
Caro, Miguel A.
Carpenter, William Henry
Chadwick, John
Chafe, Wallace
Chambers, Jack
Champollion, Jean-François
Chao Yuen Ren, PR China
Chatterji, Suniti Kumar
Chomsky, Noam
Chyet, Michael L.
Clyne, Michael George
Collitz, Hermann
Comrie, Bernard
Coseriu, E.
Cowgill, Warren
Cowper, Elizabeth
Croft, William
Crystal, David
Cuervo, Rufino Jose
Culicover, Peter W.
Curme, George Oliver
D
Dal, Vladimir
Dani, Ahmad Hasan
Daniels, Peter T.
de Saussure, Ferdinand
Deacon, Terrence
Delbrück, Berthold
DeLozier, Judith
Dempwolff, Otto
Diderichsen, Paul
Dijk, Teun A. van
Dixon, R. M. W.
Dobrovský, Josef
Doke, Clement Martyn
Dooley, Sheila
Dorian, Nancy
Dowty, David
Dozier, Edward P.
Dressler, Wolfgang U.
Driem, George van
Duden, Konrad
Dunn, John Asher
E
Edwards, Jonathan
Ehret, Christopher
Elgin, Suzette Haden
Elman, Jeffrey L.
Emeneau, Murray Barnson
Even-Shoshan, Abraham
Everett, Daniel Leonard
Everson, Michael
F
Fillmore, Charles J.
Firth, John Rupert
Fischer-Jřrgensen, Eli
Fiske, Willard
Fodor, Janet Dean
Fodor, Jerry Alan
Foley, William
Ford, Jeremiah Denis Mathias
Fowler, Carol A.
French, David Heath
Friedrich, Johannes
Fromkin, Victoria
G
Galloway, Brent D.
Gamkrelidze, Thomas V.
Gans, Eric
Gazdar, Gerald
Gebauer, Jan
Geeraerts, Dirk
Givón, Talmy
Gleason, Jean Berko
Goddard, R.H. Ives
Gode, Alexander
Goldberg, Adele
Goldsmith, John Anton
Goldstein, Louis M.
Gordon, Cyrus Herzl
Gray, Louis Herbert
Greenberg, Joseph Harold
Abramson, Arthur S.
Adams, Douglas Q.
Adler, George J.
Aikhenvald, Alexandra Yurievna
Aitken, Adam Jack
Albright, William Foxwell
Alleyne, Mervyn Coleridge
Aoun, Joseph
Aronoff, Mark
Ascoli, Graziadio Isaia
Austin, John Langshaw
B
Bach, Emmon
Baker, Mark
Bally, Charles
Bar-Hillel, Yehoshua
Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen
Barker,, Philip Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman
Barlow, Robert Hayward
Barnhart, David K.
Barnhart, Robert
Barsky, Robert
Bartlett, John Russell
Baudouin de Courtenay, Jan Niecislaw
Beckman, Mary E.
Beckwith, Christopher
Bellugi, Ursula
Bender, M. Lionel
Berlitz, Charles Frambach
Berlitz, Maximilian Delphinius
Bhartrihari
Bickerton, Derek
Bleek, Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel
Bloch, Bernard
Bloch, Jules
Bloomfield, Leonard
Boas, Franz
Boersma, Paul
Bolinger, Dwight Le Merton
Bomhard, Allan R.
Bopp, Franz
Bowerman, Melissa
Boyd, Julian Charles
Bresnan, Joan
Bright, William
Brody, Michael
Brugmann, Karl
Bucholtz, Mary
Burgess, Anthony
Burling, Robbins
Burridge, Kate
Butzkamm, Wolfgang
C
Campbell, Lyle
Cardona, George
Carnap, Rudolf
Carnie, Andrew
Caro, Miguel A.
Carpenter, William Henry
Chadwick, John
Chafe, Wallace
Chambers, Jack
Champollion, Jean-François
Chao Yuen Ren, PR China
Chatterji, Suniti Kumar
Chomsky, Noam
Chyet, Michael L.
Clyne, Michael George
Collitz, Hermann
Comrie, Bernard
Coseriu, E.
Cowgill, Warren
Cowper, Elizabeth
Croft, William
Crystal, David
Cuervo, Rufino Jose
Culicover, Peter W.
Curme, George Oliver
D
Dal, Vladimir
Dani, Ahmad Hasan
Daniels, Peter T.
de Saussure, Ferdinand
Deacon, Terrence
Delbrück, Berthold
DeLozier, Judith
Dempwolff, Otto
Diderichsen, Paul
Dijk, Teun A. van
Dixon, R. M. W.
Dobrovský, Josef
Doke, Clement Martyn
Dooley, Sheila
Dorian, Nancy
Dowty, David
Dozier, Edward P.
Dressler, Wolfgang U.
Driem, George van
Duden, Konrad
Dunn, John Asher
E
Edwards, Jonathan
Ehret, Christopher
Elgin, Suzette Haden
Elman, Jeffrey L.
Emeneau, Murray Barnson
Even-Shoshan, Abraham
Everett, Daniel Leonard
Everson, Michael
F
Fillmore, Charles J.
Firth, John Rupert
Fischer-Jřrgensen, Eli
Fiske, Willard
Fodor, Janet Dean
Fodor, Jerry Alan
Foley, William
Ford, Jeremiah Denis Mathias
Fowler, Carol A.
French, David Heath
Friedrich, Johannes
Fromkin, Victoria
G
Galloway, Brent D.
Gamkrelidze, Thomas V.
Gans, Eric
Gazdar, Gerald
Gebauer, Jan
Geeraerts, Dirk
Givón, Talmy
Gleason, Jean Berko
Goddard, R.H. Ives
Gode, Alexander
Goldberg, Adele
Goldsmith, John Anton
Goldstein, Louis M.
Gordon, Cyrus Herzl
Gray, Louis Herbert
Greenberg, Joseph Harold
Grice,, Herbert Paul
Grierson, George Abraham
Grimm, Jakob Ludwig Carl
Grinder, John Thomas
Gumperz, John Joseph
Gutiérrez Eskildsen, Rosario María
Guy, Gregory
H
Haarmann, Harald
Haas, Mary Rosamund
Hagberg, Carl August
Hajic, Jan
Hajicová, Eva
Hale, Kenneth Locke
Hall, Kira
Hall, Richard Michael Ryan
Hall, Robert A.
Halle, Morris
Halliday, Michael Alexander Kirkwood
Hammond, Michael
Hamp, Eric P.
Haq, Abdul
Harder, Peter
Harkavy, Alexander
Harrington, John Peabody
Harris, Roy
Harris, Zellig Sabbetai
Hartmann, Reinhard Rudolf Karl
Haugen, Einar Ingvald
Hawkins, Bruce Wayne
Hawkins, John A.
Hayakawa, Samuel Ichiye
Hayes, Bruce
Heath, Jeffrey
Heine, Bernd
Hepburn, James Curtis
Hewitt, John Napoleon Brinton
Hjelmslev, Louis
Hobbs, Jerry R.
Hock, Hans Henrich
Hockett, Charles Francis
Hoffmann, John-Baptist
Hoijer, Harry
Hook, Peter Edwin
Hopper, Paul
Hornstein, Norbert
Hrozný, Bedrich
Huddleston, Rodney D.
Hudson, Richard
Humboldt, Wilhelm von
Hupel, August Wilhelm
Hyman, Larry M.
Hymes, Dell Hathaway
I
Ivanov, Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich
Ivic, Pavle
J
Jackendoff, Ray
Jackson, Abraham Valentine Williams
Jackson, Kenneth Hurlstone
Jakobson, Roman Osipovich
Jarring, Gunnar
Jespersen, Otto
Johnson, David E.
Johnson, Keith
Jones, Daniel
Jones, Sir William
Joshi, Aravind Krishana
K
Kaplan, Ronald M.
Karadžic, Vuk Stefanovic
Kari, James
Katz, Jerrold J.
Kay, Martin
Kay, Paul
Kayne, Richard
Keating, Patricia
Keenan, Edward
Kenyon, John Samuel
Keyser, Samuel Jay
Kinkade, M. Dale
Kiparsky, Paul
Klima, Edward
Koot, Hans van de
Korzybski, Alfred Habdank Skarbek
Koster, Jan
Krahe, Hans
Krashen, Stephen
Kratzer, Angelika
Krauss, Michael E.
Kroeber, Alfred Louis
Kucera, Henry
Kuno, Susumu
Kurath, Hans
Kurylowicz, Jerzy
L
Labov, William
Ladefoged, Peter Nielsen
Lado, Robert
Lakoff, George P.
Lakoff, Robin Tolmach
Lamb, Sydney MacDonald
Lambdin, Thomas Oden
Langacker, Ronald W.
Lasnik, Howard
Lawler, John
Laycock, Donald
Leech, Geoffrey
Lees, Robert
Lehmann, Winfred P.
Lepsius, Karl Richard
Leskien, August
Levinson, Stephen C.
Li Fanggui, PR China/USA
Liberman, Alvin Meyer
Liberman, Anatoly
Liberman, Mark
Lieber, Rochelle
Lieberman, Philip
Lisker, Leigh
Local, John
Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn
Ludlow, Peter
M
MacWhinney, Brian
Maddieson, Ian
Malkiel, Yakov
Marantz, Alec
March, Francis Andrew
Margolis, Max Leopold
Martin, Samuel Elmo
Martinet, André
Martinet, Jeanne
Mathesius, Vilém
Matisoff, James A.
Matthews, Peter Hugoe
Matthews, Stephen
Mattingly, Ignatius G.
McCarthy, John J.
Grierson, George Abraham
Grimm, Jakob Ludwig Carl
Grinder, John Thomas
Gumperz, John Joseph
Gutiérrez Eskildsen, Rosario María
Guy, Gregory
H
Haarmann, Harald
Haas, Mary Rosamund
Hagberg, Carl August
Hajic, Jan
Hajicová, Eva
Hale, Kenneth Locke
Hall, Kira
Hall, Richard Michael Ryan
Hall, Robert A.
Halle, Morris
Halliday, Michael Alexander Kirkwood
Hammond, Michael
Hamp, Eric P.
Haq, Abdul
Harder, Peter
Harkavy, Alexander
Harrington, John Peabody
Harris, Roy
Harris, Zellig Sabbetai
Hartmann, Reinhard Rudolf Karl
Haugen, Einar Ingvald
Hawkins, Bruce Wayne
Hawkins, John A.
Hayakawa, Samuel Ichiye
Hayes, Bruce
Heath, Jeffrey
Heine, Bernd
Hepburn, James Curtis
Hewitt, John Napoleon Brinton
Hjelmslev, Louis
Hobbs, Jerry R.
Hock, Hans Henrich
Hockett, Charles Francis
Hoffmann, John-Baptist
Hoijer, Harry
Hook, Peter Edwin
Hopper, Paul
Hornstein, Norbert
Hrozný, Bedrich
Huddleston, Rodney D.
Hudson, Richard
Humboldt, Wilhelm von
Hupel, August Wilhelm
Hyman, Larry M.
Hymes, Dell Hathaway
I
Ivanov, Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich
Ivic, Pavle
J
Jackendoff, Ray
Jackson, Abraham Valentine Williams
Jackson, Kenneth Hurlstone
Jakobson, Roman Osipovich
Jarring, Gunnar
Jespersen, Otto
Johnson, David E.
Johnson, Keith
Jones, Daniel
Jones, Sir William
Joshi, Aravind Krishana
K
Kaplan, Ronald M.
Karadžic, Vuk Stefanovic
Kari, James
Katz, Jerrold J.
Kay, Martin
Kay, Paul
Kayne, Richard
Keating, Patricia
Keenan, Edward
Kenyon, John Samuel
Keyser, Samuel Jay
Kinkade, M. Dale
Kiparsky, Paul
Klima, Edward
Koot, Hans van de
Korzybski, Alfred Habdank Skarbek
Koster, Jan
Krahe, Hans
Krashen, Stephen
Kratzer, Angelika
Krauss, Michael E.
Kroeber, Alfred Louis
Kucera, Henry
Kuno, Susumu
Kurath, Hans
Kurylowicz, Jerzy
L
Labov, William
Ladefoged, Peter Nielsen
Lado, Robert
Lakoff, George P.
Lakoff, Robin Tolmach
Lamb, Sydney MacDonald
Lambdin, Thomas Oden
Langacker, Ronald W.
Lasnik, Howard
Lawler, John
Laycock, Donald
Leech, Geoffrey
Lees, Robert
Lehmann, Winfred P.
Lepsius, Karl Richard
Leskien, August
Levinson, Stephen C.
Li Fanggui, PR China/USA
Liberman, Alvin Meyer
Liberman, Anatoly
Liberman, Mark
Lieber, Rochelle
Lieberman, Philip
Lisker, Leigh
Local, John
Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn
Ludlow, Peter
M
MacWhinney, Brian
Maddieson, Ian
Malkiel, Yakov
Marantz, Alec
March, Francis Andrew
Margolis, Max Leopold
Martin, Samuel Elmo
Martinet, André
Martinet, Jeanne
Mathesius, Vilém
Matisoff, James A.
Matthews, Peter Hugoe
Matthews, Stephen
Mattingly, Ignatius G.
McCarthy, John J.
McCawley, James D.
McCune, George McAfee
McNamara, Barbara
McWhorter, John Hamilton
Meinhof, Carl Friedrich Michael
Melchert, H. Craig
Miklošic, Franc
Miller, Roy Andrew
Mithun, Marianne
Montague, Richard Merett
Moser, Edward W.
Mufwene, Salikoko
Munro, Pamela
Murray, James
Myers-Scotton, Carol
N
Napoli, Donna Jo
Neeleman, Ad
Nelson, Andrew Nathaniel
Newmeyer, Frederick J.
Nichols, Johanna
Nolan, Francis
Noreen, Adolf Gotthard
Nunberg, Geoffrey
O
Ohala, John
Okrand, Marc
Orton, Harold
P
Partee, Barbara Hall
Paul, Hermann Otto Theodor
Pawley, Andrew Kenneth
Pedersen, Holger
Pedersen, Johannes
Pei, Mario Andrew
Pesetsky, David Michael
Phillipson, Robert
Pike, Kenneth Lee
Pilch, Herbert
Pimsleur, Paul
Pinker, Steven
Pollard, Carl Jesse
Pollock, Jean-Yves
Postal, Paul M.
Primer, Sylvester
Prince, Alan Sanford
Pulgram, Ernst
Pullum, Geoffrey K.
Pustejovsky, James D.
Q
Quirk, Charles Randolph
R
Rael, Juan Bautista
Rask, Rasmus Christian
Read, Allen Walker
Reinhart, Tanya
Rickford, John Russell
Rizzi, Luigi
Roberts, Ian G.
Rock, Joseph Francis Charles
Ross, John Robert
Ross, Malcolm David
Rubin, Philip E.
Ruhlen, Merritt
S
Sacks, Harvey
Sadock, Jerrold
Sag, Ivan
Salo, David
Sampson, Geoffrey
Sankrityayan, Rahul
Sapir, Edward
Saunders, Irene
Sayce, Archibald Henry
Schiller, Eric
Schleicher, August
Schmidt, Johannes
Schmidt, Wilhelm
Searle, John Rogers
Sen, Sukumar
Sequoyah
Sgall, Petr
Shackle, Christopher
Sievers, Eduard
Sihler, Andrew Littleton
Sinclair, John McHardy
Skeat, Walter W.
Skinner, B.F.
Skousen, Royal
Smith, Neilson Voyne
Smolensky, Paul
Snyder, William Brandon
Steels, Luc
Swadesh, Morris
Sweet, Henry
T
Talmy, Leonard
Tannen, Deborah Frances
Teeter, Karl van Duyn
Thomas, Calvin
Thompson, John Eric Sidney
Thompson, Sandra A.
Tolkien, John Ronal Reuel
Trager, George Leonard
Trask, Robert Lawrence
Trudgill, Peter
Turner, Mark
U
Ullendorff, Edward
Unger, James Marshall
Upton, Clive
V
Vasmer, Max
Veltman, Calvin
Vendler, Zeno
Ventris, Michael George Francis
W
Wackernagel, Jacob
Wang Li
Watkins, Calvert
Weeks, Raymond
Weinreich, Max
Weinreich, Uriel
Wells, John Christopher
Westermann, Diedrich Hermann
Westphal, Ernst Oswald Johannes
Whalen, Douglas H.
Wheeler, Benjamin Ide
White, Lydia
Whitney, William Dwight
Whorf, Benjamin Lee
Widdowson, Henry G.
Wierzbicka, Anna
Williams, Nicholas Jonathan Anselm
Williams, Samuel Wells
Wilson, Robert Dick
Wittmann, Henri
Wurm, Stephen Adolphe
Y
Yngve, Victor
Young, Robert W.
Z
Zepeda, Ofelia
Zwicky, Arnold,
McCune, George McAfee
McNamara, Barbara
McWhorter, John Hamilton
Meinhof, Carl Friedrich Michael
Melchert, H. Craig
Miklošic, Franc
Miller, Roy Andrew
Mithun, Marianne
Montague, Richard Merett
Moser, Edward W.
Mufwene, Salikoko
Munro, Pamela
Murray, James
Myers-Scotton, Carol
N
Napoli, Donna Jo
Neeleman, Ad
Nelson, Andrew Nathaniel
Newmeyer, Frederick J.
Nichols, Johanna
Nolan, Francis
Noreen, Adolf Gotthard
Nunberg, Geoffrey
O
Ohala, John
Okrand, Marc
Orton, Harold
P
Partee, Barbara Hall
Paul, Hermann Otto Theodor
Pawley, Andrew Kenneth
Pedersen, Holger
Pedersen, Johannes
Pei, Mario Andrew
Pesetsky, David Michael
Phillipson, Robert
Pike, Kenneth Lee
Pilch, Herbert
Pimsleur, Paul
Pinker, Steven
Pollard, Carl Jesse
Pollock, Jean-Yves
Postal, Paul M.
Primer, Sylvester
Prince, Alan Sanford
Pulgram, Ernst
Pullum, Geoffrey K.
Pustejovsky, James D.
Q
Quirk, Charles Randolph
R
Rael, Juan Bautista
Rask, Rasmus Christian
Read, Allen Walker
Reinhart, Tanya
Rickford, John Russell
Rizzi, Luigi
Roberts, Ian G.
Rock, Joseph Francis Charles
Ross, John Robert
Ross, Malcolm David
Rubin, Philip E.
Ruhlen, Merritt
S
Sacks, Harvey
Sadock, Jerrold
Sag, Ivan
Salo, David
Sampson, Geoffrey
Sankrityayan, Rahul
Sapir, Edward
Saunders, Irene
Sayce, Archibald Henry
Schiller, Eric
Schleicher, August
Schmidt, Johannes
Schmidt, Wilhelm
Searle, John Rogers
Sen, Sukumar
Sequoyah
Sgall, Petr
Shackle, Christopher
Sievers, Eduard
Sihler, Andrew Littleton
Sinclair, John McHardy
Skeat, Walter W.
Skinner, B.F.
Skousen, Royal
Smith, Neilson Voyne
Smolensky, Paul
Snyder, William Brandon
Steels, Luc
Swadesh, Morris
Sweet, Henry
T
Talmy, Leonard
Tannen, Deborah Frances
Teeter, Karl van Duyn
Thomas, Calvin
Thompson, John Eric Sidney
Thompson, Sandra A.
Tolkien, John Ronal Reuel
Trager, George Leonard
Trask, Robert Lawrence
Trudgill, Peter
Turner, Mark
U
Ullendorff, Edward
Unger, James Marshall
Upton, Clive
V
Vasmer, Max
Veltman, Calvin
Vendler, Zeno
Ventris, Michael George Francis
W
Wackernagel, Jacob
Wang Li
Watkins, Calvert
Weeks, Raymond
Weinreich, Max
Weinreich, Uriel
Wells, John Christopher
Westermann, Diedrich Hermann
Westphal, Ernst Oswald Johannes
Whalen, Douglas H.
Wheeler, Benjamin Ide
White, Lydia
Whitney, William Dwight
Whorf, Benjamin Lee
Widdowson, Henry G.
Wierzbicka, Anna
Williams, Nicholas Jonathan Anselm
Williams, Samuel Wells
Wilson, Robert Dick
Wittmann, Henri
Wurm, Stephen Adolphe
Y
Yngve, Victor
Young, Robert W.
Z
Zepeda, Ofelia
Zwicky, Arnold,