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...
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...
Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker

male, 55 years old
Steven Pinker , a native of Montreal, received his BA from McGill University in 1976 and his PhD in psychology from Harvard in 1979. After teaching...
Ferdinand de Saussure

Ferdinand de Saussure

male, deceased (1913)
Ferdinand de Saussure (November 26, 1857 – February 22, 1913) was a Geneva-born Swiss linguist whose ideas laid the foundation for many of the si...
George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

male, deceased (1950)
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856-2 November 1950) was an Irish dramatist, literary critic, and socialist. During his career Shaw wrote more than...
David Crystal

David Crystal

male, 68 years old
Professor David Crystal, OBE (born 1941 in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, UK) is a linguist, academic and author. He grew up in Holyhead, North Wales,...
Deborah Tannen

Deborah Tannen

female, 64 years old (Mc Lean, Virginia, United States)
Deborah Frances Tannen (born June 7, 1945) is an American professor of sociolinguistics at Georgetown University. Although she has lectured...
Edward Sapir

Edward Sapir

male, deceased (1939)
Edward Sapir, (January 26 1884 - February 4 1939) was an American anthropologist-linguist, a leader in American structural linguistics, and one of...

Mark Liberman

male
Mark Liberman is a linguist. He has a dual appointment at the University of Pennsylvania, as Trustee Professor of Phonetics in the Department of...
Roman Jakobson

Roman Jakobson

male, deceased (1982)
Roman Osipovich Jakobson was a Russian thinker who became one of the most influential linguists of the 20th century by pioneering the development...