Geoffrey Pullum

Geoffrey Pullum

male, 64 years old
University of California, Santa Cruz faculty, University College London, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, linguistics, British, American…linguist
Professor Geoffrey K. Pullum (born March 8, 1945 in Irvine, Scotland) is a linguist specialising in the study of English. (The surname Pullum is...
William Bright

William Bright

male, deceased (2006)
Brain tumour death, University of Colorado faculty, University of California, Berkeley alumni, UCLA, nahuatl, linguistics…linguist
William Bright (born August 13, 1928, Oxnard, California; died October 15, 2006 (of a brain tumor), Louisville, Colorado) was an American linguist...
Andrew Carnie

Andrew Carnie

male, 40 years old
University of Arizona, international folk dance, syntactic theory, Associate Professor, Irish language, American…linguist
Andrew Carnie (born April 19, 1969) is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. He is the author or coauthor of six...
Richard Francis Burton

Richard Francis Burton

male, deceased (1890)
The Book of One Thousand Nights and A Night, British military personnel of the Crimean War, British East India Company Army officer, death by myocardial infarction, The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, linguistics…linguist
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (March 19, 1821 - October 20, 1890) was a British explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist,...
Nicholas Ostler

Nicholas Ostler

male
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Foundation for Endangered Languages, Bath, Somerset, University of Oxford, greek, sanskrit…linguist
Nicholas Ostler is a British scholar and author. He is also the author of the 2005 book "Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World",...
Tanya Reinhart

Tanya Reinhart

female, deceased (2007)
linguistics, Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy, linguist, death by stroke, New York University
Tanya Reinhart was an Israeli linguist who wrote frequently on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She contributed columns to the Israeli newspaper...

John Lawler

male
professor, linguistics, University of Michigan, Ask-A-Linguist, general linguist, Monosyllable Database…linguist
John Lawler is a University of Michigan-based general linguist who is perhaps best known to the wider public for his role in creating the...

Torch

male, 38 years old
mid-1980s, Fremd im eigenen Land, Advanced Chemistry, Haitian-Germans, Afrika Bambaata, Frederik Hahn…linguist
Frederik Hahn (born September 29, 1971 in Heidelberg), better known by his stage name Torch, is a German rapper with Haitian roots. He was among...
Larry Trask

Larry Trask

male, deceased (2004)
Alumni of the University of London, linguist, dictionary, Historical linguist, university of sussex, linguistics
Robert Lawrence "Larry" Trask (November 10, 1944 - March 27, 2004) was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sussex and an authority on...
Marc Okrand

Marc Okrand

male
Klingon languages, Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country, University of California, Santa Barbara, Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Star Trek III The Search for Spock, Aztecs…linguist
Marc Okrand is the creator of the Klingon language. He was hired by Paramount Pictures to develop the language and coach the actors on "Star Trek...