Leonard Bloomfield

Leonard Bloomfield

male, deceased (1949)
linguistics, Phonologist, structuralism, Jewish American, linguist, scientist…University of Chicago linguist
Leonard Bloomfield was an American linguist, whose influence dominated the development of structural linguistics in America between the 1930s and...
Ray Jackendoff

Ray Jackendoff

male, 64 years old (Waltham, Massachusetts, United States)
psychology, Semanticists, Brandeis University, professor, linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology…linguist
Ray Jackendoff (born January 23, 1945) is an influential contemporary linguist who has always straddled the boundary between generative linguistics...
Suzette Haden Elgin

Suzette Haden Elgin

female, 73 years old
San Diego State University faculty, Feminist science fiction, University of California, San Diego alumni, Linguistics educator, American, science fiction…linguist
Suzette Haden Elgin is an American science fiction author. She founded the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and is considered an important...
Wilhelm von Humboldt

Wilhelm von Humboldt

male, deceased (1835)
German philosopher, Academic, linguistics, Humboldt University of Berlin faculty, philosopher, Educator…linguist
Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von Humboldt, government functionary, diplomat, philosopher, founder of Humboldt Universität i...
John Grinder

John Grinder

male
Syntactician, American self-help writer, linguistics, linguist, Ph.D., Neuro-Linguistic Programming writer
John Grinder, Ph.D. (born 1940) is an American author and linguist. Grinder (pronounced grin-der,) is credited (with Richard Bandler) with the...
Pompeu Fabra

Pompeu Fabra

male, deceased (1948)
Renaixença, Curs mitjà de gramàtica catalana, bilbao, philology, orthography, catalan…linguist
Pompeu Fabra i Poch was a Catalan grammarian, the main author of the normative reform of contemporary Catalan language. Trained as a mechanical...
Joseph Greenberg

Joseph Greenberg

male, deceased (2001)
linguistics, Stanford University, linguist, American, typology, Language families and languages
Joseph Harold Greenberg was a prominent and controversial linguist, known for his work in both language classification and typology. He was born in...
Derek Bickerton

Derek Bickerton

male, 83 years old
acquire language, Roots of Language, Language and Species, human, language acquisition, Contemporary artist…linguist
Derek Bickerton (born March 25, 1926) is a linguist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu. Based on his work in creole...
Alexander von Humboldt

Alexander von Humboldt

male, deceased (1859)
classical liberalism, biogeography, linguist, German, Naturalist, Explorer of South America
(September 14, 1769, Berlin – May 6, 1859, Berlin) was a Prussian naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, ph...
Otto Jespersen

Otto Jespersen

male, deceased (1943)
Linguistics writer, Linguistics educator, Autobiographer, University of Copenhagen faculty, Alumni of the University of Oxford, teacher…linguist
Jens Otto Harry Jespersen or Otto Jespersen (July 16, 1860-April 30, 1943) was a Danish linguist who specialized in the grammar of the English...