Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

male, 80 years old (Stony Brook, New York, United States)
linguist, philosopher, Left Wing, Chomsky hierarchy, philosopher of mind, theoretical linguistics…professor, MIT professor, Institute Professor, Professor of Linguistics, Full Professor
Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, and a prolific author and lecturer. He...
George Lakoff

George Lakoff

male, 68 years old (Berkeley, California, United States)
linguist, metaphor, cognitive linguistics, professor, university of california berkeley, progressivism
George Lakoff is Goldman Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has...
Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker

male, 55 years old
linguist, Cognitive scientist, The Language Instinct, Harvard University faculty, scientist, evolutionary psychology
Steven Pinker , a native of Montreal, received his BA from McGill University in 1976 and his PhD in psychology from Harvard in 1979. After teaching...
David Crystal

David Crystal

male, 68 years old
linguist, from Anglesey, bilingual, Academic of the University of Wales, Bangor, English language learning and teaching, Language education…professor
Professor David Crystal, OBE (born 1941 in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, UK) is a linguist, academic and author. He grew up in Holyhead, North Wales,...
Deborah Tannen

Deborah Tannen

female, 64 years old (Mc Lean, Virginia, United States)
linguist, new york times best seller list, Binghamton University alumni, interpersonal communication, Georgetown University, You Just Don't Understand…professor, author/ professor
Deborah Frances Tannen (born June 7, 1945) is an American professor of sociolinguistics at Georgetown University. Although she has lectured...
John McWhorter

John McWhorter

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

male, deceased (1973)
The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, author, writer, the silmarillion, middle-earth…linguist, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, Merton Professor
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English philologist, writer and university professor, best known as the au...
Heidi Harley

Heidi Harley

female, 40 years old
University of Arizona, Distributed morphology, syntactic theory, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Associate Professor, morphology…linguist, Associate Professor of Linguistics
Heidi B. Harley (born September 26, 1969) is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. She is the author or coauthor of...
William Labov

William Labov

male, 82 years old
dialectology, Linguistic Society of America, Harvard University, Martha's Vineyard, sociolinguistics, English…linguist, 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...
Bernard Comrie

Bernard Comrie

male, 62 years old
linguist, new guinea, British, sunderland, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Bernard Comrie (born May 23, 1947 in Sunderland, UK) is a British-born linguist. He is a professor at and director of the Department of Linguistics...
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