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...
Morris Halle

Morris Halle

male, 86 years old
Morris Halle, né Pinkowitz, is an American linguist. He was born in Liepaja, Latvia, in 1923, and moved with his family to Riga in 1929. They a...
Yuen Ren Chao

Yuen Ren Chao

male, deceased (1982)
Yuen Ren Chao (Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Jaw Yuanrenn) (November 3, 1892 - February 25, 1982) was an American Chinese linguist and amateur composer. He made...

John McCarthy

male
John McCarthy (born 1953 in Medford, Massachusetts) is a linguist and professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts...

Alan Prince

male, 63 years old (New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States)
Alan Sanford Prince (born 1946) is a professor of linguistics at Rutgers University. Prince, along with Paul Smolensky, developed Optimality Theory...
Paul Smolensky

Paul Smolensky

male, 54 years old (Baltimore, Maryland, United States)
Paul Smolensky (born May 5, 1955) is a professor of Cognitive Science at the Johns Hopkins University. With Alan Prince he developed Optimality...
Leonard Bloomfield

Leonard Bloomfield

male, deceased (1949)
Leonard Bloomfield was an American linguist, whose influence dominated the development of structural linguistics in America between the 1930s and...

John Goldsmith

male
John Anton Goldsmith (born 1951) is the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, with appointments in...
Nikolai Trubetzkoy

Nikolai Trubetzkoy

male, deceased (1938)
Prince Nikolay Sergeyevich Trubetzkoy (also: Trubetskoy) (Russian: (Moscow, April 15, 1890 - Vienna, June 25, 1938) was a Russian linguist whose...
Jerzy Rubach

Jerzy Rubach

male (Iowa City, Iowa, United States)
Jerzy Rubach (born 1948) is a Polish and American linguist, phonologist. Professor of linguistics at University of Iowa and University of Warsaw...