Daniel Everett

male
Daniel L. Everett (born in Holtville, California) is a linguistics professor who currently serves as Chairperson of the Department of Languages,...
Merritt Ruhlen

Merritt Ruhlen

male
Merritt Ruhlen (pronounced) is an American linguist known for his work on the classification of languages and what this reveals about the origin...
Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards

male, deceased (1801)
Jonathan Edwards (1745-1801) was an American theologian and linguist. Born in Northampton, Massachusetts, he was the second son of Jonathan...
Roy Harris

Roy Harris

male
Roy Harris is Emeritus Professor of General Linguistics in the University of Oxford and Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall. He has also held...
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...
Mark Turner

Mark Turner

male
Mark Turner is a cognitive scientist, linguist, and author. He is Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve...
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...
Ivan Sag

Ivan Sag

male, 60 years old
Ivan Sag (born November 9, 1949 in Alliance, Ohio) is a professor of linguistics at Stanford University. With Carl Pollard, he has written several...
Johanna Nichols

Johanna Nichols

female
Linguist Johanna Nichols is a professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. Her...
Max Weinreich

Max Weinreich

male, deceased (1969)
Max Weinreich (1893/94 Goldingen, Courland (Kuldiga, Latvia) - 1969 New York City, USA) was a linguist, specializing in Yiddish, and the father of...