Jean Nicot

Jean Nicot

male, deceased (1600)
Jean Nicot, was a French diplomat and scholar. Born in Nîmes, in the south of France, he was French ambassador in Lisbon, Portugal from 1559 to 1...
John Lynch

John Lynch

male
John Lynch is a linguist specializing in Oceanic languages. He is a professor and the Director of the Pacific Languages Unit at the University of...
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...

Pamela Munro

female
Pamela Munro is an American linguist who specializes on Native American languages. She teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles. She...

Sandro Nielsen

male, 48 years old
Sandro Nielsen (1961-) is a Danish metalexicographer associated with Centre for Lexicography at the Aarhus School of Business, Denmark, from where...

Alexander Harkavy

male, deceased (1939)
Alexander Harkavy (Александр Гаркави "Aleksandr Garkavi", May 5, 1863, born at Nowogrudok, Minsk guberniya ("governate"), Russia (now Navahrudak,...

Leo James English

male
Father Leo James English, C.Ss.R. is the Australian compiler and editor of two of among the first most widely used bilingual dictionaries in the...

Robert Barnhart

male, deceased (2007)
Robert K. Barnhart (1933 - April 2007) was an American lexicographer and editor of various specialized dictionaries. He was co-editor, with his...
Mike Lesk

Mike Lesk

male
Mike E. Lesk is an American computer programmer. In the 1960s, Mike Lesk worked for the SMART project, wrote much of its retrieval code and did...

Yaska

male
Yaska also gives a test for nouns both concrete and abstract: nouns are words which can be indicated by the pronoun "that".