Dell Hymes

Dell Hymes

male, 82 years old
linguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, anthropological linguistics, Dell Hathaway Hymes, journal, Ph.D.
Dell Hathaway Hymes (born June 7, 1927 in Portland, Oregon) is a sociolinguist, anthropologist, and folklorist whose work has dealt primarily with...
Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards

male, deceased (1801)
From Northampton, Massachusetts, linguistics, northampton, Princeton University alumni, linguist, from Connecticut
Jonathan Edwards (1745-1801) was an American theologian and linguist. Born in Northampton, Massachusetts, he was the second son of Jonathan...
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...
Tanya Reinhart

Tanya Reinhart

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

Dan Sperber

male
Institut Jean Nicod, Cognitive scientist, philosophy, pragmatics, relevance theory, CNRS…linguistics, Department of Linguistics
Dan Sperber is a French anthropologist, linguist and cognitive scientist, currently a Research Director at the Jean Nicod Institute, CNRS. He is...
Christiane Fellbaum

Christiane Fellbaum

female
Princeton University, Lexicographer, linguistics, braunschweig, American, Cognitive science
Christiane Fellbaum, born in Braunschweig, has lived since 1969 in the United States. After graduating from Princeton University with a PhD in...

Joan Bresnan

female, 64 years old (Portola Valley, California, United States)
Stanford University, Ron Kaplan, Joan Wanda Bresnan, Lexical-Functional Grammar, Lexical functional grammar, The Mental Representation of Grammatical Relations…linguistics, Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University
Joan Wanda Bresnan (born August 22, 1945) is Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University. She is best known as one of the architects (with Ron...
Derek Bickerton

Derek Bickerton

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

Zellig Harris

male, deceased (1992)
University of Pennsylvania, linguist, Syntactician, anarchist, doctoral degree, linguistics…structural linguistics, Methods in Structural Linguistics
Zellig Sabbetai Harris (October 23, 1909 - May 22, 1992) was an American linguist, mathematical syntactician, and methodologist of science....
Bernd Heine

Bernd Heine

male
linguist, linguistics, grammar, University of Cologne, African Studies, language contact
Bernd Heine is a German linguist and specialist in African studies. From 1978 to 2004 Heine held the chair for African Studies at the University of...