Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

male, 80 years old (Stony Brook, New York, United States)
Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, and a prolific author and lecturer. He...
William Labov

William Labov

male, 82 years old
William Labov is an American linguist, widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics. He has been described as...
Ray Jackendoff

Ray Jackendoff

male, 64 years old (Waltham, Massachusetts, United States)
Ray Jackendoff (born January 23, 1945) is an influential contemporary linguist who has always straddled the boundary between generative linguistics...
John R. Rickford

John R. Rickford

male (Stanford, California, United States)
John R. Rickford is Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University, where he has been a faculty member since 1980. From September 1998 he will...
George Lakoff

George Lakoff

male, 68 years old (Berkeley, California, United States)
George Lakoff is Goldman Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has...
Roger Schwarzschild

Roger Schwarzschild

male (New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States)
Roger Schwarzschild is a professor of linguistics in the department of linguistics at Rutgers University. His primary research is in the fields of...

James Matisoff

male, 72 years old
James A. Matisoff (born July 14, 1937) is a professor emeritus of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley and noted authority on...
Noam

Noam

male, 81 years old (Jacksonville, Florida, United States)
I am the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I am credited with the creation of the theory of...
Maria Polinsky

Maria Polinsky

female (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)