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...
Clive Upton

Clive Upton

male
Clive Upton is professor of English language at the University of Leeds, England, specializing in dialectology and sociolinguistics. He has also...
Uriel Weinreich

Uriel Weinreich

male, deceased (1967)
Uriel Weinreich (1926 - 1967) was a world famous linguist at Columbia University. Born in Vilnius (then part of Poland and now capital of...
Una Canger

Una Canger

female, 71 years old
Una Canger (May 14, 1938 —) is a Danish linguist specializing in languages of Mesoamerica. She has published mostly about the Nahuatl language wi...

Pavle Ivić

male, deceased (1999)
Professor Pavle Ivić was a leading South Slavic and general dialectologist and phonologist. Both his field work and his synthesizing studies were e...

Dalibor Brozović

male, 82 years old
Dalibor Brozović is a Croatian linguist. He has worked in the areas of general linguistics, Slavic studies and dialectology. He made his most i...
Pierre Bec

Pierre Bec

male
Pierre Bec, is an Occitan poet and linguist. Born in Paris, 1921, he spent his childhood in Comenge, where he learnt Occitan. He has been deported...
Milan Rešetar

Milan Rešetar

male
Milan Rešetar (Serbian cyrillic: "Милан Решетар", February 1 1860, Dubrovnik - January 14 1942, Florence) was a Serbian slavist, linguist, Rag...

Paul Kretschmer

male, deceased (1956)
Paul Kretschmer was a German linguist who studied the earliest history and interrelations of the Indo-European languages and showed how they were...
Thomas

Thomas

male, 39 years old (Lake Worth, Florida, United States)
Lo Strano vizio della Signora Wardh (1971)