John McWhorter

John McWhorter

male, 44 years old
John H. McWhorter (1965-), was associate professor of linguistics at University of California, Berkeley until 2003, and is now a Senior Fellow at...
Bernd Heine

Bernd Heine

male
Bernd Heine is a German linguist and specialist in African studies. From 1978 to 2004 Heine held the chair for African Studies at the University of...
Rodney Huddleston

Rodney Huddleston

male
Rodney D. Huddleston is a linguist and grammarian specializing in the study and description of English. Huddleston is the primary author of "The...
Henry Sweet

Henry Sweet

male, deceased (1912)
Henry Sweet (1845-1912) was a philologist, and is also considered to be an early linguist. He specialized in the Germanic languages, particularly...

James Harris

male, deceased (1780)
James Harris (July 20, 1709 - December 22, 1780), English grammarian, was born at Salisbury. He was educated at the grammar school in the Close at...
Dell Hymes

Dell Hymes

male, 82 years old
Dell Hathaway Hymes (born June 7, 1927 in Portland, Oregon) is a sociolinguist, anthropologist, and folklorist whose work has dealt primarily with...
Aulus Gellius

Aulus Gellius

male, 1884 years old
Aulus Gellius, Latin author and grammarian, possibly of African origin, probably born and certainly brought up at Rome. He studied grammar and...
John Of Salisbury

John Of Salisbury

male, deceased (1180)
John of Salisbury, English author, diplomat and bishop of Chartres, was born at Salisbury. Beyond the fact that he was of Saxon, not of Norman...
August Schleicher

August Schleicher

male, deceased (1868)
August Schleicher was a German linguist. His great work was "A Compendium of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-European Languages", in which he...
Robert Lowth

Robert Lowth

male, deceased (1787)
Robert Lowth FRS DD (27 November, 1710 - 3 November, 1787) was a Bishop of the Church of England, a professor of poetry at Oxford University and...