William Labov

William Labov

male, 82 years old
dialectology, Linguistic Society of America, Harvard University, Martha's Vineyard, sociolinguistics, English…linguistics, Professor of Linguistics
William Labov is an American linguist, widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics. He has been described as...
Morris Halle

Morris Halle

male, 86 years old
Jewish person, linguistics, The Sound Pattern of English, American, riga, Phonologist…Master's Degree in Linguistics
Morris Halle, né Pinkowitz, is an American linguist. He was born in Liepaja, Latvia, in 1923, and moved with his family to Riga in 1929. They a...
Alexander von Humboldt

Alexander von Humboldt

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

Ray Jackendoff

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

Peter Trudgill

male, 66 years old
From norwich, Labovian, Professor Peter Trudgill, University of Essex, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Reading…linguistics
Professor Peter Trudgill (born 1943 in Norwich, England) is a sociolinguist, academic and author. He grew up in Norwich, where he attended the City...
John McWhorter

John McWhorter

male, 44 years old
Stanford University, Stanford University alumni, Ph.D., Associate Professor, think tank, Religious Society of Friends…linguistics
John H. McWhorter (1965-), was associate professor of linguistics at University of California, Berkeley until 2003, and is now a Senior Fellow at...
Barbara Partee

Barbara Partee

female, 69 years old (Amherst, Massachusetts, United States)
Barbara Hall Partee, University of Massachusetts, University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty, Semanticists, professor, linguistics
Barbara Hall Partee (born June 23, 1940 in Englewood, New Jersey) is a Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy Emerita at...
Daniel Jurafsky

Daniel Jurafsky

male
Stanford University, MacArthur Fellow, Non-fiction writer, linguistics, MacArthur Fellowship, American…Department of Linguistics
Daniel Jurafsky is an Associate Professor in Linguistics at Stanford University. With James Martin, he wrote the textbook Speech and Language...
Peter Ladefoged

Peter Ladefoged

male, deceased (2006)
death by stroke, bombay, Peter Nielsen Ladefoged, The Sounds of the World's Languages, English-American, endangered languages…linguistics
Peter Nielsen Ladefoged was an English-American linguist and phonetician who traveled the world to document the distinct sounds of endangered...
Leonard Bloomfield

Leonard Bloomfield

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