# List of women linguists

A linguist is someone who engages in the academic discipline of linguistics. Due to social and institutional forces, women in linguistics have been marginalized leading to significant interest in both the causes of and solutions to gender bias in linguistics.
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* H
* I
* J
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* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
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* T
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## A

| Name | Description |
| Abbi, Anvita | Indian linguist, scholar |
| Abbott, Barbara | American linguist |
| Adamou, Evangelia | Contact linguist and specialist in endangered languages |
| Adelswärd, Viveka | Conversation analysis and institutional interaction |
| Aikhenvald, Alexandra | Linguist |
| Aissen, Judith | Linguist and Mayan specialist |
| Aitchison, Jean | Linguist and writer |
| Alexiadou, Artemis | Greek linguist and syntactician |
| Allen, Shanley | Canadian linguist and acquisitionist |
| Anagnostopoulou, Elena | Greek linguist and syntactician |
| Antas, Jolanta | Polish linguist |
| Archangeli, Diana | American linguist |
| Ariel, Mira | Israeli linguist, developer of Accessibility Theory |
| Armstrong, Lilias | (1882–1937) British phonetician |
| Arregui, Ana | Formal semanticist |
| Ashraf, Syeda Ummehani | Linguist |
| Atkins, Beryl | Professional lexicographer |

## B

| Name | Description |
| Bagchi, Tista | Indian linguist and ethicist |
| Baird, Jessie Little Doe | Indigenous linguist and revitalization specialist |
| Bakró-Nagy, Marianne | Hungarian historical linguist and Finno-Ugrist |
| Bannon, Ann | (b. 1932) Lesbian pulp fiction author and linguist |
| Baptista, Marlyse | Cape Verdean contact linguist |
| Barber, Katherine | British-born Canadian lexicographer |
| Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen | American applied linguist |
| Baron, Naomi | American linguist and digital communication specialist |
| Bartsch, Renate | German linguist and philosopher of language |
| Bazzanella, Carla | Italian pragmaticist and sociolinguist |
| Beck, Sigrid | German semanticist |
| Beckman, Mary | American linguist, prosodist and acquisitionist |
| Beddor, Patrice | American phonetician and phonologist |
| Béguelin, Marie-José | Swiss linguist |
| Behrens, Heike | German psycholinguist |
| Bell, Jeanie | Australian specialist in Aboriginal languages |
| Bellugi, Ursula | German-American linguist and cognitive neuroscientist |
| Berez-Kroeker, Andrea | American documentary linguist |
| Berezovich, Elena | Russian onomastician and ethnolinguist |
| Berg, Helma van den | Dutch linguist and Caucasian specialist |
| Bergman, Brita | Swedish signed-language linguist |
| Berko Gleason, Jean | American psycholinguist and Wug Test creator |
| Berman, Ruth A. | South African-Israeli linguist and Hebraicist |
| Bermúdez, Eloína Miyares | Cuban linguist and lexicographer |
| Bernot, Denise | French linguist and Burmese specialist |
| Biagi, Maria Luisa Altieri | Italian historical linguist |
| Bishop, Judith | Australian poet, linguist and translator |
| Blake, Renée A. | Caribbean American sociolinguist |
| Blau, Joyce | Egyptian-French linguist and Kurdish specialist |
| Bleek, Dorothea | South African-born German anthropologist and philologist |
| Blevins, Juliette | American phonetician, phonologist and historical linguist |
| Blumstein, Sheila | American neurolinguist |
| Borer, Hagit | Israeli-born American theoretical linguist and syntactician |
| Bowerman, Melissa | Max-Planck-based American acquisitionist/psycholinguist |
| Bowern, Claire | US-based Australian historical linguist |
| Boyce, Mary | British linguist and specialist in Iranian languages and Zoroastrianism |
| Brentari, Diane | American linguist and sign-language specialist |
| Bresnan, Joan | American syntactician and founder of Lexical-Functional Grammar |
| Briggs, Jean | American-born anthropologist, ethnographer and linguist |
| Bril, Isabelle | French linguist and typologist specialising in Austronesian languages |
| Bromwich, Rachel | British philologist and Celtic specialist |
| Broselow, Ellen | American experimental linguist |
| Browman, Catherine | American linguist and speech scientist |
| Brown, Penelope | American anthropological linguist |
| Brugman, Til | Dutch author, poet and linguist |
| Buchi, Éva | Swiss linguist, lexicographer and Romance specialist |
| Bucholtz, Mary | American sociolinguist and anthropological linguist |
| Bull, Tove | Norwegian linguist, first female rector of the University of Tromsø |
| Burlak, Svetlana | Russian linguist and Indo-Europeanist |
| Burridge, Kate | Australian linguist and Germanicist |
| Butt, Miriam | German computational linguist and syntactician |
| Bybee, Joan | American linguist, pioneer of the usage-based approach |

## C

* Cacoullos, Rena Torres
* Çambel, Halet Archaeologist and decipherer of Anatolian hieroglyphs
* Cameron, Deborah
* Canger, Una
* Cassell, Justine
* Catach, Nina
* Cataldi, Lee
* Catrileo, María
* Charity Hudley, Anne H.
* Chaski, Carole
* Chelliah, Shobhana
* Chen, Yiya Phonetician and prosody specialist
* Cheng, Lisa
* Cheshire, Jenny
* Chevalier, Marion Frances
* Choi, Soonja
* Chomsky, Carol
* Choueiri, Lina
* Chowning, Ann
* Christensen, Kirsti Koch
* Chuilleanáin, Eiléan Ní
* Chung, Sandra
* Cirlot, Victoria
* Clark, Dymphna
* Clark, Eve V.
* Clopper, Cynthia
* Cole, Jennifer S.
* Condee, Nancy
* Contini-Morava, Ellen
* Cornilescu, Alexandra Syntactician of English and Romanian
* Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth
* Cowper, Elizabeth
* Crago, Martha
* Cristofaro, Sonia Typologist and specialist in subordination
* Crowhurst, Megan
* Curzan, Anne

## D

* Dąbrowska, Ewa Polish cognitive linguist
* Davies, Anna Morpurgo
* Davis, Jenny L.
* D'Costa, Jean
* de Castro, Yeda Pessoa
* de Guzman, Maria Odulio
* Deloria, Ella Cara
* Denham, Kristin
* Dent, Susie
* de Malkiel, María Rosa Lida
* Demirdache, Hamida French syntactician and semanticist
* Dino, Güzin
* Divjak, Dagmar Corpus linguist and cognitive linguist
* Dobrushina, Nina Russian linguist and Caucasologist
* Dolphyne, Florence Ghanaian linguist
* Dorian, Nancy
* Doron, Edit
* Doron, Helen
* Downing, Laura J.
* Dragićević, Rajna
* Duarte, Dulce Almada
* Dürscheid, Christa
* Dwyer, Arienne

## E

* Eckert, Penelope
* Ehrlich, Susan
* Eichholz, Vilma Sindona
* É. Kiss, Katalin
* Elgin, Suzette Haden
* Elizarenkova, Tatyana
* Emmorey, Karen
* Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth
* Engdahl, Elisabet
* England, Nora
* Epps, Patience
* Ergun, Zeynep
* Erlés, Patricia Esteban
* Ernestus, Mirjam Dutch psycholinguist and laboratory phonologist
* Erofeyeva, Tamara
* Ervin-Tripp, Susan M.
* Escandell-Vidal, Victoria Spanish semanticist and pragmaticist
* Eskildsen, Rosario María Gutiérrez
* Espinal, M. Teresa
* Erzsébet, Barát

## F

* Faber, Pamela
* Fanego, Teresa Spanish specialist in historical English syntax
* Farion, Iryna
* Fellbaum, Christiane
* Fielding, Stephanie
* Fierz-David, Linda
* Fiesel, Eva
* Fischer-Jørgensen, Eli
* Fitzgerald, Colleen
* Fjeld, Ruth Vatvedt
* Florey, Margaret
* Fodor, Janet Dean
* Foster, Mary LeCron
* Frazier, Lyn
* Freidenberg, Olga
* Frolova, Olga
* Fromkin, Victoria

## G

* Gabain, Annemarie von
* Gabanyi, Anneli Ute
* Gal, Susan
* Gelashvili, Naira
* Genetti, Carol
* Gerdts, Donna
* Gervain, Judit Neurolinguist and prosody specialist
* Gezundhajt, Henriette
* Ghomeshi, Jila
* Giacalone Ramat, Anna Italian historical linguist and acquisitionist
* Gleitman, Lila
* Glisan, Eileen
* Glushkova, Irina
* Goldberg, Adele
* Goldin-Meadow, Susan
* Goodman, Felicitas
* Gopnik, Myrna
* Green, Lisa
* Grenoble, Lenore
* Grigore, Delia
* Groll, Sarah Israelit
* Grønnum, Nina
* Guasti, Maria Teresa Acquisitionist
* Gullberg, Marianne Swedish psycholinguist, gesture specialist
* Gvishiani, Natalia

## H

* Haas, Mary
* Haessler, Luise
* Hajičová, Eva
* Hakulinen, Auli
* Hall, Kira
* Hansen, Maj-Britt Mosegaard
* Harley, Heidi
* Harris, Alice
* Harrison, Jane Ellen
* Hasan, Ruqaiya
* Hasdeu, Iulia
* Hasluck, Margaret
* Hatcher, Anna Granville
* Heath, Shirley Brice
* Heim, Irene
* Heller, Monica
* Hellwig, Birgit Descriptive linguist and psycholinguist
* Hercus, Luise
* Hermon, Gabriella
* Herring, Susan
* Hickmann, Maya Developmental psycholinguist
* Hidasi, Judit
* Hildebrandt, Martha
* Hill, Elizabeth
* Hill, Jane H.
* Hinton, Leanne
* Hoff, Erika
* Holmes, Janet
* Holst, Clara
* Holtsmark, Anne
* Hume, Elizabeth V.
* Humphreys, Jennett
* Hyams, Nina

## I

* Iatridou, Sabine
* Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Iraide Basque-Spanish cognitive linguist
* Inkelas, Sharon
* Irigaray, Luce
* Itō, Junko
* Ivars, Ann-Marie

## J

* Jacobson, Pauline
* Jaszczolt, Katarzyna
* Jeanne, LaVerne
* Jefferson, Gail
* Jelinek, Eloise
* Jensen, Eva Skafte
* Jinfang, Li
* Jisa, Harriet French developmental linguist
* Jobbé-Duval, Brigitte
* Jones, Eliza Grew
* Jun, Sun-Ah

## K

* Kachru, Yamuna
* Kahane, Renée
* Kaisse, Ellen
* Kapeliuk, Olga
* Karg-Gasterstädt, Elisabeth
* Karpelès, Suzanne
* Karttunen, Frances
* Keating, Patricia
* Kepping, Ksenia
* Kevelson, Roberta
* Kidwai, Ayesha Indian theoretical linguist
* Kilham, Hannah
* Kipfer, Barbara Ann
* Kirkness, Verna
* Klepfisz, Irena
* Kober, Alice
* Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria Typologist and editor-in-chief of Linguistic Typology
* Kordić, Snježana
* Korkmaz, Zeynep
* Kormos, Judit
* Kornfilt, Jaklin
* Kovacs, Agnes Melinda Psycholinguist and cognitive scientist
* Kozhina, Margarita
* Kramer, Christina
* Kratzer, Angelika
* Kropp Dakubu, Mary Esther
* Kula, Nancy C.
* Kuteva, Tania Grammaticalization theorist and typologist

## L

* Laakso, Johanna
* Lacal de Bracho, Luisa Spanish musicologist and linguist
* Lafkioui, Mena
* Lahiri, Aditi
* Lakoff, Robin
* Lambton, Ann
* Lanehart, Sonja L.
* Larsen-Freeman, Diane
* Lasch, Agathe
* Lastra, Yolanda
* Laughren, Mary
* Legate, Julie Anne
* Lehiste, Ilse
* Levin, Beth
* Lillo-Martin, Diane
* Lippi, Rosina
* Lloyd, Lucy
* Los, Bettelou
* Louw, Cinie Linguist and missionary working on Karanga
* Lucas, Ceil
* Linda Pilliére, a French linguist

## M

* Macaulay, Monica
* Majid, Asifa
* Maling, Joan
* Mallinson, Christine American sociolinguist
* Malzahn, Melanie German Indo-Europeanist and Tocharianist
* Manzini, Maria Rita
* Marchello-Nizia, Christiane
* Marika, Raymattja
* Martineau, France
* Martinez, Esther
* Massam, Diane
* Massignon, Geneviève
* Masterman, Margaret
* Mayberry, Rachel
* Mazdapour, Katayun
* McConnell-Ginet, Sally
* McKay, Sandra Lee
* McKean, Erin
* McMahon, April
* McNally, Louise
* Meakins, Felicity
* Meiman-Kitrossky, Inna
* Mendoza-Denton, Norma
* Menn, Lise
* Menyuk, Paula
* Mestergazi, Elena
* Metslang, Helle
* Meyerhoff, Miriam
* Michaelis, Laura
* Michaelis, Susanne Maria
* Mierzejewska, Halina
* Milroy, Lesley
* Mints, Zara
* Mithun, Marianne
* Moliner, María
* Moltmann, Friederike
* Morford, Jill
* Morison, Odille
* Moure, Teresa
* Moyse-Faurie, Claire French linguist, specialist in Oceanic languages
* Munro, Pamela
* Murphy, Lynne
* Muscă, Mona
* Myers-Scotton, Carol

## N

* Nábělková, Mira
* Napier, Susan J.
* Napoli, Donna Jo
* Németh T., Enikő Hungarian pragmaticist
* Nemni, Monique
* Nichols, Johanna
* Nielsen, Harriet Bjerrum
* Nikitina, Tatiana
* Nuzhat, Shaista

## O

* Okrent, Arika
* Olsen, Birgit Anette
* O'Shea, Natalia
* Ozanne-Rivierre, Françoise
* Özsoy, A. Sumru
* Özyürek, Aslı

## P

* Padden, Carol
* Pakendorf, Brigitte South African linguist and biological anthropologist
* Pană Dindelegan, Gabriela Romanian linguist and grammarian
* Partee, Barbara
* Partridge, Monica
* Pätsch, Gertrud
* Pavilionienė, Marija Aušrinė
* Pavlenko, Aneta
* Paducheva, Elena Russian semanticist, syntactician and lexicographer
* Payne, Doris L.
* Peperkamp, Sharon
* Pereltsvaig, Asya
* Perkins, Ellavina
* Perret, Michèle
* Perstølen, Einfrid
* Pierrehumbert, Janet
* Piller, Ingrid
* Piirainen, Elisabeth
* Poletto, Cecilia Italian syntactician and dialectologist
* Polinsky, Maria
* Poplack, Shana
* Pou, Saveros
* Prince, Ellen
* Proskouriakoff, Tatiana
* Pusch, Luise F.

## Q

* Qiriazi, Parashqevi
* Queen, Robin

## R

* Rakeei, Fatemeh
* Rakhilina, Ekaterina Russian semanticist and lexical typologist
* Ralli, Angela Morphologist and Greek dialectologist
* Ramchand, Gillian
* Rappaport Hovav, Malka
* Rauch, Irmengard
* Ravid, Dorit
* Reinhart, Tanya
* Reis, Marga German syntactician
* Reutner, Ursula
* Rey-Debove, Josette
* Reynolds, Barbara
* Rialland, Annie
* Rice, Keren
* Rivers, Wilga
* Robert, Stéphane
* Romaine, Suzanne
* Romero, Maribel Spanish semanticist
* Ronat, Mitsou
* Rošker, Jana S.
* Rowlands, Jane Helen

## S

* Sabatini, Alma
* Sadiqi, Fatima
* Safavi, Azarmi Dukht
* Sakaguchi, Alicja
* Sakayan, Dora
* Samant, Satvasheela
* Sampson, Hazel
* Sandler, Wendy
* Sankoff, Gillian
* Saubel, Katherine Siva
* Saunders, Irene
* Schieffelin, Bambi
* Schilling, Natalie
* Schmid, Monika German acquisitionist and attrition specialist
* Seki, Lucy
* Selkirk, Elisabeth O.
* Semino, Elena
* Shakryl, Tamara
* Sharma, Devyani
* Sharvit, Yael
* Shaw, Patricia Alice
* Shepard-Kegl, Judy
* Shvedova, Natalia
* Siewierska, Anna
* Simons, Mandy
* Simpson, Jane
* Sims, Andrea
* Širola, Dorjana
* Sjoestedt, Marie-Louise
* Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove
* Smith, Adeline
* Snell-Hornby, Mary
* Soames, Laura
* Sorace, Antonella
* Sornicola, Rosanna
* Sova, Lyubov
* Sovran, Tamar
* Sow, Salamatou
* Steriade, Donca
* Stollznow, Karen
* Stuart-Smith, Jane
* Sullivan, Thelma D.
* Swain, Merrill
* Sweetser, Eve
* Syrett, Kristen

## T

* Tagliamonte, Sali
* Tambroni, Clotilde
* Tannen, Deborah
* Tarlinskaja, Marina
* Tarone, Elaine
* Tarpent, Marie-Lucie
* Tenenbaum, Joan M.
* Thomas, M. Carey
* Thomason, Sarah
* Thompson, Sandra
* Thornton, Anna Italian morphologist
* Timm, Erika
* Toby, Ida
* Tracy, Rosemarie
* Traugott, Elizabeth C.
* Turville-Petre, Joan

## U

* Ulhicun, Aisin-Gioro
* Uri, Helene

## V

* Vainikka, Anna
* Vaissière, Jacqueline
* van Dijk, Marijn
* Vanhove, Martine
* van Kemenade, Ans
* Varlamova, Galina
* Verspoor, Marjolijn
* Vojtko, Margaret Mary

## W

* Walden, Tsvia
* Walter, Henriette
* Ward, Ida C.
* Wardale, Edith British philologist of Germanic languages
* Wąsik, Elżbieta Magdalena
* Watahomigie, Lucille
* Julia Wedgwood
* White, Lydia
* Wierzbicka, Anna
* Williamson, Kay
* Wodak, Ruth
* Wray, Alison
* Wright, Elizabeth Mary English linguist and dialectologist
* Wurmbrand, Susi

## Y

* Yartseva, Viktoria
* Yee, Mary
* Yershova, Galina
* Yip, Moira
* Yip, Virginia
* Young-Scholten, Martha

## Z

* Zaenen, Annie
* Zanuttini, Raffaella
* Zassenhaus, Hiltgunt
* Zellou, Georgia
* Zepeda, Ofelia
* Zeshan, Ulrike
* Zhang, Niina Ning
* Žic-Fuchs, Milena
* Zsiga, Elizabeth
* Zubizarreta, M.-L.
* Zuengler, Jane