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Geoffrey Nunberg male: deferred reference, The Way We Talk Now, polysemy, Talking Right, lexical semantics, indexicality…linguistics; Geoffrey Nunberg is a linguist who teaches at the UC Berkeley School of Information. As a linguist, he is best known for his work on lexical...

Larry Wall male, 55 years old: Perl, programming language creator, Programming Perl, Perl writer, linguist, computer programmer…linguistics; Larry Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, linguist, and author, most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in...

Amy Tan female, 57 years old: INFP, The Kitchen God's Wife, PBS, Los Angeles Times, San José State University alumni, Literary Editor…linguistics; Amy Tan is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and what it means to grow up as a first generation Asian American....

Paul Kay male: Charles Fillmore, University of California, Berkeley faculty, Construction Grammar, University of California, Berkeley, emeritus, American…linguistics; Paul Kay is an emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He joined the University in 1966 as a member of...

George A. Miller male, 89 years old: Miller's Law, George A(rmitage) Miller, National Medal of Science, Human-computer interaction notables, The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two, Center for Cognitive Studies…linguistics; George A(rmitage) Miller (February 3, 1920 in Charleston, West Virginia) is a famous professor of psychology at Princeton University. He formerly...

Anna Wierzbicka female, 71 years old: anthropological linguistics, linguistics, Lexicography and Conceptual Analysis, pragmatics, Australian National University, Lingua Mentalis The semantics of natural language…cross-cultural linguistics; Anna Wierzbicka (b. 1938) was born in Poland and is a linguist at the Australian National University. She is primarily known for her work in...

Michael Halliday male, 84 years old: linguist, linguistics, M. A. K. Halliday, SFL, Lingnan University, Indo-European languages…systemic functional linguistics; Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (often M. A. K. Halliday) (born 1925) is an English linguist who developed an internationally influential...

Ian Roberts male, 52 years old: Academic of the University of Cambridge, frank zappa, PhD, North Wales, University of Wales, Bangor, From lincolnshire…Generative linguistics, linguistics; Ian G. Roberts (born October 23, 1957 in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England) is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. He received...

Jacob Grimm male, deceased (1863): mythographer, writer, fairy tales, Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Hanau, Hesse-Kassel…linguistics; Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm (Hanau, January 4, 1785 - September 20, 1863 in Berlin), German philologist, jurist and mythologist, was born at Hanau, in...

William Bright male, deceased (2006): Brain tumour death, University of Colorado faculty, University of California, Berkeley alumni, UCLA, nahuatl, linguistics…descriptive linguistics, Linguistics Society of America, president of the Linguistics Society of America, CU Linguistics department; William Bright (born August 13, 1928, Oxnard, California; died October 15, 2006 (of a brain tumor), Louisville, Colorado) was an American linguist...

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