Theo Vennemann

Theo Vennemann

male, 72 years old
Theo Vennemann genannt Nierfeld (May 27, 1937 -) is a German linguist known best for his work on historical linguistics, especially for his...
L. L. Zamenhof

L. L. Zamenhof

male, deceased (1917)
Ludvic Lazarus (Ludwik Lejzer, Ludwik Łazarz) Zamenhof was an eye doctor, philologist, and the initiator of Esperanto, the most widely spoken and s...
Marianne Mithun

Marianne Mithun

female, 63 years old
Marianne Mithun (1946-) is a leading scholar of American Indian languages and language typology. She began her career with extensive fieldwork on...
Holger Pedersen

Holger Pedersen

male, deceased (1953)
Holger Pedersen was a Danish linguist who made significant contributions to language science and wrote about 30 authoritative works concerning...

David Nash

male
David Nash is a prominent Australian field linguist, specialising in the Aboriginal languages of Australia. Brought up in Parkes, New South Wales,...
Mario Pei

Mario Pei

male, deceased (1978)
Mario Andrew Pei (1901-1978) was an Italian-American linguist and polyglot, who wrote a number of popular books known for their accessibility to...

Mark Aronoff

male
Mark Aronoff was born in Montreal, QC and is a well-known morphologist and a professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His 1974...
Paul Kiparsky

Paul Kiparsky

male, 68 years old
René Paul Viktor Kiparsky is a professor of linguistics at Stanford University. He is the son of a Russian-born linguist and slavicist Valentin K...
Charles Berlitz

Charles Berlitz

male, deceased (2003)
Charles Frambach Berlitz was a linguist and language teacher known for his books on anomalous phenomena, as well as his language-learning courses....

Ian Roberts

male, 52 years old
Ian G. Roberts (born October 23, 1957 in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England) is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. He received...