Leonard Bloomfield

Leonard Bloomfield

male, deceased (1949)
linguistics, Phonologist, structuralism, Jewish American, linguist, scientist…LinguisticSocietyofAmerica, University of Chicago linguist, University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin, University of Illinois
Leonard Bloomfield was an American linguist, whose influence dominated the development of structural linguistics in America between the 1930s and...
William Labov

William Labov

male, 82 years old
dialectology, LinguisticSocietyofAmerica, Harvard University, Martha's Vineyard, sociolinguistics, English…University of Pennsylvania faculty, University of Pennsylvania, Professor of Linguistics, The University of Pennsylvania
William Labov is an American linguist, widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics. He has been described as...

Mark Aronoff

male
Word Formation in Generative Grammar, Linguistic Inquiry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni, MIT Press, morphologist, LinguisticSocietyofAmerica…State University of New York at Stony Brook
Mark Aronoff was born in Montreal, QC and is a well-known morphologist and a professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His 1974...
William Bright

William Bright

male, deceased (2006)
Brain tumour death, University of Colorado faculty, University of California, Berkeley alumni, UCLA, nahuatl, linguistics…university of colorado at boulder, University of Colorado, LinguisticSocietyofAmerica, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles
William Bright (born August 13, 1928, Oxnard, California; died October 15, 2006 (of a brain tumor), Louisville, Colorado) was an American linguist...
Arnold Zwicky

Arnold Zwicky

male
UIUC, Stanford University, Handbook of Morphology, Language Log, Distinguished University Professor, LinguisticSocietyofAmerica
Arnold M. Zwicky is a perennial Visiting Professor of linguistics at Stanford University, and Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of...
Dell Hymes

Dell Hymes

male, 82 years old
linguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, anthropological linguistics, Dell Hathaway Hymes, journal, Ph.D.…LinguisticSocietyofAmerica, University of California, Berkeley, American Folklore Society, Language in Society, University of Pennsylvania
Dell Hathaway Hymes (born June 7, 1927 in Portland, Oregon) is a sociolinguist, anthropologist, and folklorist whose work has dealt primarily with...

John Goldsmith

male
John Anton Goldsmith, LinguisticSocietyofAmerica, Phonologist, bioinformatics, unsupervised learning, MIT…American Academy of Arts and Sciences, LSA Linguistic Institutes, University of Chicago linguist, University of Chicago
John Anton Goldsmith (born 1951) is the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, with appointments in...
Harry Hoijer

Harry Hoijer

male, deceased (1976)
linguist, fieldnotes, Lipan Apache, Anthropologist, southern, extinct language…LinguisticSocietyofAmerica, University Of Chicago Press, President of the Linguistic Society of America, University of Michigan Symposium, University of Chicago-Ford Foundation Conference
Harry Hoijer (September 6, 1904 - March 11, 1976) was a linguist and anthropologist who worked on primarily Athabaskan languages and culture. He...

Mark Baker

male
Rutgers, linguistics, LinguisticSocietyofAmerica, linguist, Mohawk language, polysynthetic languages
Mark C. Baker is an American linguist. He received his Ph. D. from MIT in 1985 and has taught at Rutgers since 1998. Prof. Baker has frequently...