Thomas G. Bever (born December 9, 1939) is a Regent's Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, and Neuroscience at the University of Arizona.
 He has been a leading figure in psycholinguistics, focusing on the cognitive and neurological bases of linguistic universals, among other pursuits.
 Bever received a B.A. in linguistics and psychology from Harvard University in 1961, and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967; he studied with Noam Chomsky, George A. Miller, and Jean Piaget.
 He taught at Rockefeller University from 1967–1969, Columbia University from 1970–1986 (where he was involved with Project Nim), and the University of Rochester from 1985–1995, before accepting his current position at the University of Arizona, where he has remained ever since.
Iha Fuyū (伊波普猷, March 15, 1876 – August 13, 1947) was the "father of Okinawaology" and a Japanese scholar who studied various aspects of Japanese and Okinawan culture, customs, linguistics, and lore.
 His signature was Ifa Fuyu in English, because of the Okinawan pronunciation.
 Iha studied linguistics in the University of Tokyo and was devoted to the study of Okinawan linguistics, folklore, and history.
 His most famous book on the subject, "Ko Ryūkyū" ("Old Ryūkyū"), was published in 1911 and remains one of the best works on Okinawan studies.
 He devoted much time to the discovery of the origins of Okinawan people to establish their history.
 He had considerable influence not only on the study of Okinawan folklore but also of Japanese folklore.
Max Weinreich (22 April 1894 in Kuldīga, Russian Empire, now Latvia – 29 January 1969 in New York City, United States) was a Russian Jewish linguist, specializing in sociolinguistics and Yiddish, and the father of the linguist Uriel Weinreich, who edited the "Modern Yiddish-English English-Yiddish Dictionary".
Robert Fowkes was born in Harrison, New York.
 He received his B.A. in 1934 from New York University (NYU), with majors in German and Latin, and his M.A. from NYU a year later.
 He held a fellowship at the University of Bonn (1936–37).
 He received his Ph.D. in 1947 from Columbia University.
 Fowkes began teaching at NYU in 1938 as an instructor in German.
 He later became head of the German Department (1957–1968).
 He retired from NYU in 1978, but continued as Professor Emeritus, lecturing on Avestan, Old Irish, Gothic, Hittite, and other languages, until the 1990s.
 He also held a Guggenheim Fellowship in Welsh.
 During World War II he supervised technical research in German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and Japanese.
 Later, at NYU he taught Yiddish, Gothic, Old Saxon, Frisian, Old Norse, Scandinavian, Sanskrit as well as German.
 He was visiting professor of Celtic languages at Columbia University in 1947.
Yoshio Nishi (西 義郎 Nishi, Yoshio 1934-)　is a Japanese scholar of Tibeto-Burman linguistics.
 He first studied linguistics while a student at the International Christian University (Tokyo) under the leadership of Roy Andrew Miller.
 After the master's coursework at the University of Tokyo and his time studying at Rangoon University, he taught at Kyushu University (assistant professor; April 1969 - March 1972), Kagoshima University (associate professor; April 1975 - March 1980, professor; April 1980 - September 1981), Ehime University (professor; October 1981 - March 1988), and Kobe City University of Foreign Studies (professor; April 1988 - March 1998).
 In 1996 when the university newly founded the doctoral course at its graduate school, he was the only professor of linguistics qualified to supervise doctoral students.
 He is now a professor emeritus at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, and was nominated in 1993 as a distinguished professor at Central University of Nationalities in Beijing.
Nicolaus Adriani (15 September 1865, Oud-Loosdrecht – 5 August 1926, Poso, Central Sulawesi) was a Christian missionary from the Netherlands who did work in Indonesia.
 He studied linguistics of the East Indies at Leiden University, obtaining his PhD in 1893.
 He was sent by the Nederlandsch Bijbelgenootschap.
 He worked as a linguist in Poso, Central Sulawesi.
Uriel Ofek (Hebrew: אוריאל אופק, born: 30 June 1926 in Tel Aviv – 23 January 1987) was an Israeli writer for children and youth, editor, lyricist, poet, translator and children's literature scholar.
Jonathan Kaye studied linguistics at Columbia University under Uriel Weinreich and Robert Austelitz, earning his Ph.D. in 1970.
 He wrote his thesis on Desano, a South American language he studied through a year of field work in the Amazon.
Uriel Weinreich (Yiddish: אוריאל ווײַנרײַך‎ "Uriel Vaynraykh", ] ; 23 May 1926 – 30 March 1967) was a Polish-American linguist.
Theodore Roszak (May 1, 1907 – September 2, 1981) was a Polish-American sculptor and painter.
 He was born in Posen, Prussia (German Empire), now Poznań, Poland, as a son of Polish parents, and emigrated to the United States at the age of two.
 From 1925 to 1926 he studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, In 1930 he won the Logan Medal of the Arts, then moved to New York City to take classes at the National Academy of Design with George Luks and at Columbia University, where he studied logic and philosophy.

Question: Jonathan Kaye studied linguistics at Columbia University under Uriel Weinreich and Robert Austelitz, earning his Ph.D. in 1970, Uriel Weinreich (Yiddish: אוריאל ווײַנרײַך‎ "Uriel Vaynraykh", ] ; 23 May 1926 – 30 March 1967) was a Polish-American of which occupation.?
Answer: linguist