भाषाशास्त्रियों की सूची

शैक्षिक संदर्भों में उन लोगों को **भाषावैज्ञानिक** (linguist) कहा जाता है जो प्राकृतिक भाषा का अध्ययन करते हैं। भाषावैज्ञानिक, बहुभाषी (polyglot), वैयाकरण ((a scholar of grammar) हो भी सकता है और नहीं भी हो सकता है।

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## A
* Abel, Carl, Germany, comparative lexicography
* Abdul Haq, Maulvi (India, 1870&ndash;1961), Urdu language
* Abramson, Arthur S. (USA), phonetics
* Adams, Douglas Q. (USA), English language, comparative linguistics, Tocharian languages
* Adler, George J. (Germany/USA, 1821&ndash;1868), lexicography, German language, English language
* Aikhenvald, Alexandra Yurievna (Russia, 1957&mdash;), syntax, typology, Amazonian languages, Papuan languages, Hebrew language, Russian language
* Aitken, Adam Jack (UK, 1921&ndash;1998), lexicography
* Ajduković, Jovan (Serbia, 1968&mdash;), Slavic languages, sociolinguistics, contact linguistics, Russian language, Serbian language
* Albright, William Foxwell (USA, 1891&ndash;1971), Semitic languages
* Allan, Keith (Australia), semantics
* Alleyne, Mervyn Coleridge (Trinidad & Tobago/Jamaica, 1933&mdash;), creole languages
* Amerias (Greece), Ancient Macedonian language, lexicography
* Anderson, Gregory D.S. (USA), Munda languages
* Aoun, Joseph (Lebanon/USA), oriental languages, syntax
* Arisaka Hideyo (Japan, 1908&mdash;1952), Japanese language
* Aristar, Anthony (South Africa/USA, 1948&mdash;), linguistic infrastructure
* Aronoff, Mark (Canada, 1949&mdash;), morphology
* Ascoli, Graziadio Isaia (Italy, 1829&ndash;1907), Substrata, ladin language
* Austin, John Langshaw (UK, 1911&ndash;1960), philosophy of language, speech act
* Azad, Humayun (Bangladesh, 1947&ndash;2004), Bengali language

## B
* Bach, Emmon (USA, 1929&mdash;), syntax, phonology, Haisla language
* Badshah Munir Bukhari (Pakistan, 1978&mdash;) applied linguistics, languages of Northern Pakistan and Afghanistan
* Baker, Mark (USA), Mohawk language, generative grammar
* Bally, Charles (Switzerland, 1865&ndash;1947), French language, phraseology
* Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen (USA, 1954&mdash;) second language acquisition, tense and aspect, pragmatics
* Bar-Hillel, Yehoshua (Israel, 1915&ndash;1975), machine translation, categorial grammar
* Barker, (Philip) Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman (USA, 1930&mdash;), Urdu language, Indian languages
* Barlow, Robert Hayward (USA, 1918&ndash;1951), Nahuatl language
* Barnhart, David K. (USA, 1941&mdash;), lexicography, English language
* Barnhart, Robert (USA, 1933&ndash;2007), lexicography, English language
* Barsky, Robert (USA), discourse analysis
* Bartlett, John Russell (USA, 1805&ndash;1886),
* Baudouin de Courtenay, Jan Niecisław (Poland, 1845&ndash;1929), phonology, Polish language
* Beckman, Mary E. (USA), phonetics, phonology
* Beckwith, Christopher (USA, 1945&mdash;), Asian languages, Tibetan language
* Bello, Andrés (Venezuela), Spanish language, Philology
* Bellugi, Ursula (USA), sign language, neurolinguistics
* Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer (Israel), Lexicography, Revival of the Hebrew language
* Bender, M. Lionel (USA), African languages
* Benedict, Paul K. (USA), Sino-Tibetan languages, Tai-Kadai languages, historical linguistics
* Berlitz, Charles Frambach (USA, 1914&ndash;2003), language acquisition
* Berlitz, Maximilian Delphinius (USA, 1852&ndash;1921), language acquisition
* Bhartrihari (India, 450&ndash;510), Sanskrit
* Bickerton, Derek (USA, 1926&mdash;), creole languages, origin of language
* Bleek, Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel (Germany, 1827&ndash;1875), languages of Africa
* Bloch, Bernard (USA, 1907&ndash;1965), Japanese language
* Bloch, Jules (France, 1880&ndash;1953), languages of India
* Bloomfield, Leonard (USA, 1887&ndash;1949), structural linguistics
* Blust, Robert (USA), Austronesian languages
* Boas, Franz (USA, 1858&ndash;1942), indigenous languages of the Americas
* Boersma, Paul (Netherlands, 1959&mdash;), phonetics
* Bolinger, Dwight Le Merton (USA, 1907&ndash;1992), semantics, Spanish language
* Bomhard, Allan R. (USA, 1943&mdash;), Nostratic languages, historical linguistics
* Bopp, Franz (Germany, 1791&ndash;1867), Indo-European languages, comparative linguistics
* Boyd, Julian Charles (USA, 1931&ndash;2005), English language
* Bowerman, Melissa psycholinguistics, Language acquisition
* Bresnan, Joan (USA, 1945&mdash;), syntax
* Bright, William (USA, 1928&ndash;2006), Native American languages, South Asian languages
* Brody, Michael (Hungary, 1954&mdash;), syntax
* Browman, Catherine (phonetics, phonology)
* Brugmann, Karl (Germany, 1849&ndash;1919), Indo-European languages, Sanskrit, comparative linguistics
* Bucholtz, Mary (USA), sociolinguistics
* Burgess, Anthony (UK, 1917&ndash;1993), English, phonetics
* Burling, Robbins (USA, 1926&mdash;), languages of India
* Burridge, Kate (Australia), Germanic languages
* Butzkamm, Wolfgang (Germany, 1938&mdash;), applied linguistics, English language

## C
* Campbell, Lyle (USA), Native American languages
* Canger, Una (Denmark, 1938&mdash;), Mesoamerican languages
* Capell, Arthur (Australia, 1902&ndash;1986), Australian languages, Austronesian languages, Papuan languages
* Cardona, George (USA, Indo-European studies
* Carnap, Rudolf (Germany, 1891&ndash;1970), syntax, constructed languages
* Carnie, Andrew (Canada, 1969&mdash;), syntax
* Caro, Miguel A. (Colombia, 1843&ndash;1909), Spanish language, Colombian Spanish
* Carpenter, William Henry (USA, 1853&ndash;1936), Icelandic language
* Chadwick, John (UK, 1920&ndash;1998), Linear B
* Chafe, Wallace (USA, 1927&mdash;), cognitive linguistics, semantics
* Chao Yuen Ren (PR China, 1892&ndash;1982), Chinese language
* Chakrabarti, Byomkes (India, 1923&ndash;1981), Santali language, Bengali language, comparative linguistics
* Champollion, Jean-François (France, 1790&ndash;1832), Egyptian hieroglyphs
* Chambers, Jack (Canada, 1938&mdash;), sociolinguistics
* Charity Hudley, Anne Harper (USA), sociolinguistics
* Chatterji, Suniti Kumar (India, 1890&ndash;1977), Bengali language
* Choijinzhab (PR China, 1931&mdash;), Mongolian language
* Chomsky, Noam (USA, 1928&mdash;), syntax, universal grammar
* Choueiri, Lina (Lebanon), syntax, Lebanese Arabic
* Chyet, Michael L. (USA, 1957&mdash;), Kurdish language
* Clyne, Michael George (Australia), Germanic languages
* Cohen, Paul S. (USA), 1942&mdash;), phonology, etymology
* Collitz, Hermann (Germany/USA, 1855&ndash;1935), historical linguistics
* Comrie, Bernard (UK, 1947&mdash;), typology
* Cook, Guy (UK, 1951&mdash;), applied linguistics
* Coşeriu, Eugen (Romania/Germany, 1921&ndash;2002), Romance languages
* Cowgill, Warren (USA, 1929&ndash;1985), Indo-European studies
* Cowper, Elizabeth (Canada), syntax
* Croft, William (USA, 1956&mdash;), syntax, cognitive linguistics
* Crystal, David (UK, 1941&mdash;), English language, language death, applied linguistics
* Cuervo, Rufino Jose (Colombia, 1844&ndash;1911), Spanish language, Colombian Spanish
* Culicover, Peter W. (USA), syntax, language change
* Culioli, Antoine (France, 1924—), general linguistics
* Curme, George Oliver, Sr. (USA, 1860&ndash;1948), German language, English language

## D
* Dal, Vladimir (Russia, 1801&ndash;1872), lexicography, Russian language
* Dani, Ahmad Hasan (Pakistan, 1920&ndash;2009), South Asian languages
* Daniels, Peter T. (USA), writing systems
* Deacon, Terrence (USA), language change, origin of language, cognitive linguistics
* Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (Iran, 1879&ndash;1959), lexicography, Persian language
* Delbrück, Berthold (Germany, 1842&ndash;1922), Indo-European languages, syntax, comparative linguistics
* DeLozier, Judith (USA), neuro-linguistic programming
* Dempwolff, Otto (Germany, 1871&ndash;1938), Austronesian languages
* Diderichsen, Paul (Denmark, 1905&ndash;1964) Danish
* Diffloth, Gérard (USA), Mon-Khmer languages
* van Dijk, Teun Adrianus (Netherlands, 1943&mdash;), pragmatics, discourse analysis, text linguistics
* Dixon, Robert Malcolm Ward (Australia, 1939&mdash;), syntax, typology, Australian languages, Amazonian languages
* Dobrovský, Josef (Czech Republic, 1753&ndash;1829), Slavic languages, Czech language, lexicography
* Doke, Clement Martyn (South Africa, 1893&ndash;1980), Bantu languages, Lamba language
* Dolgopolsky, Aharon (Russia/Israel, 1930&mdash;), Nostratic languages
* Dorian, Nancy (USA), language death, Scottish Gaelic
* Dougherty, Ray C. (USA), transformational grammar, computational linguistics
* Dowty, David (USA), semantics, syntax
* Dozier, Edward P. (USA, 1916&ndash;1971), Native American languages, languages of the Philippines
* Dressler, Wolfgang U. (Austria, 1939&mdash;), phonology, morphology, text linguistics
* van Driem, George (Netherlands), Tibeto-Burman languages, symbiosism, Dzongkha language
* Duden, Konrad (Germany, 1829&ndash;1911), lexicography, German language
* Dunn, John Asher (USA), Tsimshian language

## E
* Edmondson, Jerold A. (USA), Tai-Kadai languages, languages of Southeast Asia
* Edwards, Jonathan, Jr. (USA, 1745&ndash;1801), North American languages, historical linguistics, Mohegan language
* Ehret, Christopher (USA), languages of Africa, historical linguistics
* Elgin, Suzette Haden (USA, 1936&mdash;), constructed languages, transformational grammar
* Elman, Jeffrey L. (USA), language processing, neurolinguistics
* Emeneau, Murray Barnson (USA, 1904&ndash;2005), Dravidian languages, linguist areas
* Esenç, Tevfik (Turkey 1904&ndash;1992), Ubykh language
* Evans, Nicholas (Australia, 1956—) Indigenous Australian languages, Papuan languages, typology
* Even-Shoshan, Avraham (Belarus/Israel, 1906&ndash;1984), Hebrew language, lexicography
* Everett, Daniel Leonard (USA, 1951&mdash;), languages of Brazil, Pirahã language
* Everson, Michael (USA/Ireland, 1963&mdash;), writing systems, historical linguistics

## F
* Fillmore, Charles J. (USA, 1929&mdash;), syntax, lexical semantics, cognitive linguistics, lexicography
* Firth, John Rupert (UK, 1890&ndash;1960), phonetics, phonology, prosody
* Fischer-Jørgensen, Eli (Denmark 1911&mdash;), phonetics, phonology, Danish language
* Fiske, Willard (USA, 1831&ndash;1904), Northern European languages, Icelandic language
* Fodor, Janet Dean (USA), psycholinguistics, semantics, syntax
* Fodor, Jerry Alan (USA, 1935&mdash;), psycholinguistics, language of thought
* Foley, William (Australia), Papuan languages, Austronesian languages
* Ford, Jeremiah Denis Mathias (USA, 1873&ndash;1958), Spanish language
* Fowler, Carol A. (USA), phonetics, phonology
* François, Alexandre (France), Austronesian languages, historical linguistics, language contact
* Freiman, Aleksandr Arnoldovich (Poland/Russia, 1879&ndash;1968), Iranian languages
* French, David Heath (USA, 1918&ndash;1994), Native American languages
* Friedrich, Johannes (Germany, 1893&ndash;1972), Hittite language
* Fromkin, Victoria (USA, 1923&ndash;2000), theoretical linguistics, constructed languages
* Fujitani Nariakira (Japan, 1738&mdash;1779), Japanese language
## G
* Galloway, Brent D. (USA, 1944&mdash;), Amerindian languages, Halkomelem language
* Gamkrelidze, Thomas V. (Georgia, 1929&mdash;), Indo-European studies, Georgian language
* Gans, Eric (USA, 1941&mdash;), origin of language
* Gazdar, Gerald (UK, 1950&mdash;), computational linguistics, syntax, semantics
* Gebauer, Jan (Czech Republic, 1838&ndash;1907), Czech language
* Geeraerts, Dirk (Belgium, 1955&mdash;), semantics, lexicography
* Givón, Talmy (Israel/USA, 1936&mdash;), syntax, semantics, pragmatics, typology, functionalism
* Giegerich, Heinz (Germany/UK), English language, phonology
* Gleason, Jean Berko (USA), psycholinguistics, language acquisition
* Goatly, Andrew (UK), English language, Chinese language
* Goddard, Cliff (Australia), semantics, pragmatics
* Goddard, R.H. Ives, III (USA), Algonquian languages, historical linguistics
* Gode, Alexander (Germany/USA, 1906&ndash;1970), constructed languages, Germanic languages
* Goldberg, Adele (USA, 1963&mdash;), syntax, psycholinguistics
* Goldsmith, John Anton (USA, 1951&mdash;), phonology, computational linguistics
* Goldstein, Louis M. (USA), phonetics, phonology
* Gong Hwang cherng (Republic of China, 1934&ndash;2010), Sino-Tibetan languages, Old Chinese, Tangut language
* Gordon, Cyrus Herzl (USA, 1908&ndash;2001), ancient languages, cuneiform script
* Gray, Louis Herbert (USA, 1875&ndash;1955), Indo-Iranian languages, phonology
* Greenberg, Joseph Harold (USA, 1915&ndash;2001), typology, language universals, languages of Africa
* Grice, (Herbert) Paul (UK/USA, 1913&ndash;1988), pragmatics
* Grierson, George Abraham (Ireland, 1851&ndash;1941), languages of India
* Gries, Stefan Th. (Germany/USA, 1970&mdash;), corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, cognitive linguistics, construction grammar
* Grimm, Jakob Ludwig Carl (Germany, 1785&ndash;1863), historical linguistics, comparative linguistics, German language
* Grinder, John Thomas (USA, 1940&mdash;), neurolinguistics
* Grube, Wilhelm (Germany, 1855&ndash;1908), Tungusic languages, Nivkh language, Jurchen language
* Guisepi, Robert A. (USA, 1949&mdash;), ancient languages
* Gumperz, John Joseph (USA, 1922&mdash;), sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology
* Gutiérrez Eskildsen, Rosario María (Mexico, 1899–1979), Spanish language, dialectology
* Guy, Gregory (USA), sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, phonetics, phonology

## H
* Haarmann, Harald (Germany, 1946&mdash;), evolutionary linguistics, language contact
* Haas, Mary Rosamund (USA, 1910&ndash;1996), Native American languages, Thai language, historical linguistics
* Hagberg, Carl August (Sweden, 1810&ndash;1864), Scandinavian languages
* Hajič, Jan (Czech Republic), computational linguistics
* Hajičová, Eva (Czech Republic), (1935&mdash;), corpus linguistics
* Hale, Kenneth Locke (USA, 1934&ndash;2001), syntax, phonology
* Hall, Kira (USA), sociocultural linguistics
* Hall, Richard Michael Ryan (USA, 1927&ndash;1996), historical linguistics, Indo-European studies, Nilotic languages
* Hall, Robert A., Jr. (USA, 1911&ndash;1997), Romance languages, Pidgins and Creoles
* Halle, Morris (Latvia/USA, 1923&mdash;), phonology, morphology
* Halliday, Michael Alexander Kirkwood (UK/Australia, 1925&mdash;), systemic functional grammar, ecolinguistics, applied linguistics
* Hammond, Michael (USA, 1957&mdash;), phonology, computational linguistics, syntax
* Hamp, Eric P. (USA, 1920&mdash;), Indo-European languages, Native American languages
* Harder, Peter (Denmark, 1950&mdash;), English language, functional linguistics
* Harkavy, Alexander (Belarus/USA, 1863&ndash;1939), Yiddish language, lexicography
* Harley, Heidi B. (USA, 1969&mdash;), distributed morphology, syntax
* Harrington, John Peabody (USA, 1884&ndash;1961), Native American languages, phonetics
* Harris, Roy (UK, 1931&mdash;), semiology, integrational linguistics
* Harris, Zellig Sabbetai (Ukraine/USA, 1909&ndash;1992), structural linguistics, discourse analysis, Semitic languages
* Hartmann, Reinhard Rudolf Karl (Austria/UK, 1938—) lexicography, contrastive linguistics
* Hashimoto Mantarō (Japan, 1932&mdash;1987), Japanese language
* Hashimoto Shinkichi (Japan, 1882&ndash;1945), Old Japanese language, Japanese language
* Haspelmath, Martin (Germany, 1963&mdash;), typology, language change, language contact, Lezgian language
* Haugen, Einar Ingvald (USA, 1906&ndash;1994), sociolinguistics, Old Norse
* Hawkins, Bruce Wayne (USA), cognitive linguistics
* Hawkins, John A. (UK), psycholinguistics, historical linguistics
* Hayakawa, Samuel Ichiye (Canada/USA, 1906&ndash;1992), semantics
* Hayes, Bruce (USA), phonology
* Hays, David Glenn (USA, 1928&ndash;1995), computational linguistics, machine translation, dependency grammar, corpus linguistics, natural language processing, cognitive science
* Heath, Jeffrey (USA), historical linguistics, morphology, linguistic anthropology
* Heim, Irene Roswitha (Germany/USA), semantics
* Heine, Bernd (Germany, 1939&mdash;), languages of Africa, sociolinguistics, language contact
* Herbert, Robert Knox (USA, 1952&ndash;2007), phonology, languages of Africa, sociolinguistics
* Hetzron, Robert (Hungary/USA, 1937&ndash;1997), Afro-Asiatic languages
* Hewitt, John Napoleon Brinton (USA, 1859&ndash;1937), Iroquoian languages
* Hjelmslev, Louis (Denmark, 1899&ndash;1965), comparative linguistics, semantics
* Hobbs, Jerry R. (United States, 1942&mdash;), computational linguistics, discourse analysis, syntax, semantics
* Hock, Hans Henrich (Germany/USA), historical linguistics, comparative linguistics, Sanskrit
* Michael Hoey (United Kingdom), lexical priming, textual interaction, corpus linguistics
* Hepburn, James Curtis (USA, 1815&ndash;1911), Japanese language, lexicography
* Hockett, Charles Francis (USA, 1916&ndash;2000), phonology, morphology
* Hoffmann, John-Baptist (Germany, 1857–1928), Mundari language
* Hoijer, Harry (USA, 1904&ndash;1976), Athabaskan languages, Tonkawa language
* Hopper, Paul (UK/USA), historical linguistics, emergent grammar
* Hornstein, Norbert (USA), syntax
* Hrozný, Bedřich (Czech Republic, 1879&ndash;1952), Hittite language, ancient languages
* von Humboldt, Wilhelm (Germany, 1787&ndash;1835), Basque language
* Huddleston, Rodney D. (UK/Australia), English language
* Hudson, Richard (UK, 1939&mdash;), syntax, word grammar
* Hupel, August Wilhelm (Germany/Estonia, 1737&ndash;1819), Estonian language, lexicography
* Hyman, Larry M. (USA, 1947&mdash;), phonology, languages of Africa
* Hymes, Dell Hathaway (USA, 1927&mdash;), sociolinguistics, Kathlamet language

## I
* Illich-Svitych, Vladislav Markovich (Ukraine/Russia, 1934&ndash;1966), comparative linguistics, Nostratic languages
* Ivanov, Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich (Russia, 1929&mdash;), Indo-European studies
* Ivić, Pavle (Serbia, 1924&ndash;1999), South Slavic languages, phonology, Serbocroatian language

## J
* Jackendoff, Ray (USA, 1945&mdash;), syntax, lexical semantics
* Jackson, Abraham Valentine Williams (USA, 1862&ndash;1937), Indo-Iranian languages, Avestan language
* Jackson, Kenneth Hurlstone (UK, 1909&ndash;1991), Brythonic languages, Gaelic languages
* Jacques, Guillaume (France), Old Chinese, Rgyalrongic languages, Tangut language
* Jagić, Vatroslav (Croatia, 1838&ndash;1923), Croatian language, Slavic languages
* Jakobson, Roman Osipovich (Russia/Czech Republic/USA, 1896&ndash;1982), structuralism, phonology
* Jarring, Gunnar (Sweden, 1907&ndash;2002), Turkic languages
* Jaszczolt, Katarzyna (UK), semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language
* Jaunius, Kazimieras (Lithuania, 1848&ndash;1908), Lithuanian language, comparative linguistics
* Jendraschek, Gerd (Germany), Basque language, Turkish language, Iatmul language
* Jespersen, Otto (Denmark, 1860&ndash;1943), English language, phonetics, constructed languages
* Johnson, David E. (USA, 1946&mdash;), syntax
* Jones, Daniel (UK, 1881&ndash;1967), phonetics
* Jones, Sir William (UK, 1746&ndash;1794), Indo-European studies, Sanskrit, comparative linguistics
* Joshi, Aravind Krishana (India/USA, 1929&mdash;), computational linguistics
* Junast (PR China, 1934&mdash;), Mongolian language, Monguor language, Eastern Yugur language, Phags-pa script
* Jurafsky, Daniel (USA), computational linguistics

## K
* Kaplan, Ronald M. (USA), computational linguistics
* Karadžić, Vuk Stefanović (Serbia, 1787&ndash;1864), Serbian language, lexicography
* Kari, James (USA), Native American languages
* Kasravi, Ahmad (Iran, 1890&ndash;1946), ancient languages, Iranian languages
* Katz, Jerrold J. (USA, 1932&ndash;2002), semantics, generative grammar
* Kaufman, Terrence (USA), historical linguistics, contact linguistics, Mesoamerican languages
* Kay, Martin (UK, USA), computational linguistics
* Kay, Paul (USA), construction grammar
* Kayne, Richard (USA), syntax, transformational grammar
* Kazama Kiyozō (Japan, 1928&mdash;), Japanese language
* Kazama Shinjirō (Japan, 1965&mdash;), Japanese language
* Keating, Patricia (USA), phonetics
* Keenan, Edward (USA), typology, semantics, Malagasy language
* Kellogg, Samuel H. (USA), Hindi language
* Kenyon, John Samuel (USA, 1874&ndash;1959), English language, lexicography, phonology
* Keyser, Samuel Jay (USA, 1935&mdash;), phonology, English language
* Kiesling, Scott Fabius (USA), sociolinguistics
* Kindaichi Haruhiko (Japan, 1913–2004), Japanese language
* Kindaichi Kyōsuke (Japan, 1882–1971), Ainu language
* Kinkade, M. Dale (USA, 1933&ndash;2004), Salishan languages
* Kiparsky, Paul (Finland/USA, 1941&mdash;), phonology, morphology
* Klima, Edward (USA, 1931&ndash;2008), sign language
* Knechtges, David R. (USA), East Asian languages, Chinese language
* Knorozov, Yuri Valentinovich (Russia, 1922&ndash;1999), Maya hieroglyphics, writing systems
* Kober, Alice (UK/USA, 1906&ndash;1950), Linear B
* Koene, Net (Netherlands, 1946&mdash;), semantics
* Kornai András (Hungary/USA, 1957&mdash;), mathematical linguistics, phonology, morphology, Hungarian language, syntax
* Korsakov, Andrey Konstantinovich (Russia/Ukraine, 1916&ndash;2007), Germanic languages, English language, morphology, syntax
* Korzybski, Alfred Habdank Skarbek (Poland/USA, 1879&ndash;1950), general semantics
* Koster, Jan (Netherlands, 1945&mdash;), generative grammar
* Krahe, Hans (Germany, 1898&ndash;1965), Indo-European languages, Illyrian language
* Krashen, Stephen (USA, 1941&mdash;), second language acquisition
* Kratzer, Angelika (USA/Germany), semantics
* Krauss, Michael E. (USA, 1941&mdash;), Native American languages
* Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (India, 1929&mdash;), Dravidian languages
* Kroeber, Alfred Louis (USA, 1876&ndash;1960), Native American languages
* Kucera, Henry (Czech Republic/USA, 1925&mdash;), computational linguistics
* Kuno Susumu (Japan/USA, 1933&mdash;), Dravidian languages, Japanese language, syntax
* Kurath, Hans (Austria/USA, 1891&ndash;1992), English language, lexicography, dialectology
* Kuroda Shigeyuki (Japan, 1934&mdash;2009), Japanese language
* Kuryłowicz, Jerzy (Poland, 1895&ndash;1978), Indo-European languages, syntax, morphology
* Kychanov, Evgenij Ivanovich (Russia, 1932&mdash;), Tangut language

## L
* Labov, William (USA, 1927&mdash;), sociolinguistics, phonology, English language
* Lado, Robert (USA, 1915&ndash;1995), applied linguistics, contrastive analysis
* Ladefoged, Peter Nielsen (UK/USA, 1925&ndash;2006), phonetics, endangered languages
* Laird, Charlton (USA, 1901&ndash;1984), lexicography, English language
* Lakoff, George P. (USA, 1941&mdash;), cognitive linguistics, transformational grammar, generative semantics, syntax
* Lakoff, Robin Tolmach (USA, 1942&mdash;), sociolinguistics
* Lamb, Sydney MacDonald (USA, 1929&mdash;), stratificational grammar, Native American languages, historical linguistics, computational linguistics
* Lambdin, Thomas Oden (USA), Semitic languages, Egyptian language
* Langacker, Ronald W. (USA, 1942&mdash;), cognitive linguistics
* Langdon, Margaret (USA, d. 2005), Native American languages
* LaPolla, Randy J. (USA), morpho-syntax, Chinese, Qiang, Rawang
* Lasersohn, Peter (USA), semantics
* Lasnik, Howard (USA, 1945&mdash;), syntax
* Lawler, John (USA), syntax, semantics, computational linguistics
* Laycock, Donald (Australia, &mdash;1988), languages of Papua New Guinea
* Leech, Geoffrey (UK) applied linguistics, English language
* Lees, Robert (USA, 1922&ndash;1996), machine translation
* Lehmann, Winfred P. (USA, 1916&ndash;2007), historical linguistics, Proto-Indo-European language
* Lepsius, Karl Richard (Germany, 1810&ndash;1884), Egyptian language, Nubian languages, phonology
* Leskien, August (Germany, 1840&ndash;1916), comparative linguistics, Baltic languages, Slavic languages
* Levinson, Stephen C. (UK/Netherlands), pragmatics
* Levstik, Fran (Slovenia, 1831&ndash;1881), Slovene language
* Li Fanwen (PR China, 1932&mdash;), Tangut language
* Li Fanggui (PR China/USA, 1902&ndash;1987), Mattole language, Tai languages, Old Chinese, Tibetan language
* Li, Paul Jen-kuei (Taiwan), Formosan languages, Austronesian languages, historical linguistics, lexicography
* Liberman, Alvin Meyer (USA, 1917&ndash;2000), speech perception, phonology
* Liberman, Anatoly (Russia/USA), etymology, Germanic languages
* Liberman, Mark (USA), phonetics, prosody
* Lieber, Rochelle (USA, 1954&mdash;), morphology, syntax, lexical semantics
* Lieberman, Philip (USA, phonetics, language evolution
* Lisker, Leigh (USA, 1918&ndash;2006), phonetics, Dravidian languages
* Local, John (UK, 1947&mdash;), phonetics, phonology, conversation analysis
* Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn (USA, 1914&ndash;1998), Native American languages, Mayan languages
* Lowman, Guy Sumner, Jr. (USA, 1909&ndash;1941), phonetics
* Ludlow, Peter (USA, 1957&mdash;), syntax, semantics
* Lukoff, Fred (USA, 1920&ndash;2000), Korean language, phonology
* Lunde, Ken (USA, 1965&mdash;), East Asian languages
* Lynch, John (Australia, 1946&mdash;), Austronesian languages, historical linguistics

## M
* MacWhinney, Brian (USA, 1945&mdash;), language acquisition, second language acquisition, corpus linguistics
* Maddieson, Ian (USA), phonetics
* Malkiel, Yakov (USA, 1914&ndash;1998), etymology, philology
* Mallinson, Christine (USA, 1978&mdash;), sociolinguistics
* Manaster Ramer, Alexis (USA/Poland), phonology, syntax, poetics, etymology
* Marantz, Alec (USA), distributed morphology
* March, Francis Andrew (USA, 1825&ndash;1911), comparative linguistics, lexicography, Old English language, English language
* Margolis, Max Leopold (Lithuania/USA, 1866&ndash;1932), Semitic languages
* Maxine Berntsen | Indian, Sociolinguistic Variation in Phaltan language 
* Marr, Nikolay Yakovlevich (Georgia/Russia, 1865&ndash;1934), historical linguistics, comparative linguistics, origin of language
* Martin, Samuel Elmo (USA, 1924&ndash;2009), Korean language, Japanese language
* Martinet, André (France, 1908&ndash;1999), structuralism, historical linguistics, constructed languages
* Martinet, Jeanne (France, 1920&mdash;), semiotics, constructed languages
* Mathesius, Vilém (Czech Republic, 1882&ndash;1945), phonology, syntax, English language, Czech language
* Matisoff, James A. (USA, 1937&mdash;), Tibeto-Burman languages, phonology
* Matthews, Peter Hugoe (UK, 1934&mdash;), morphology, syntax
* Matthews, Stephen (UK/PR China), typology, syntax, semantics, Cantonese language
* Mattingly, Ignatius G. (USA, 1927&ndash;2004), phonetics, speech synthesis, speech perception
* McCarthy, John J. (USA, 1953&mdash;), phonology, morphology, optimality theory
* McCawley, James D. (UK/USA, 1938&ndash;1999), syntax, semantics, phonology
* McCune, George McAfee (North Korea/USA, 1908&ndash;1988), Korean language
* McNamara, Barbara (USA), Chinese language
* McWhorter, John Hamilton (USA, 1965&mdash;), creole languages, Saramaccan language
* Meinhof, Carl Friedrich Michael (Germany, 1857&ndash;1944), languages of Africa
* Melchert, H. Craig (USA), Anatolian languages
* Michaelis, Laura A. (USA), syntax, English language
* Miklošič, Franc (Slovenia/Austria, 1813&ndash;1891), Slavic languages
* Miller, Roy Andrew (USA, 1924&mdash;), Tibetan language
* Mithun, Marianne (USA, 1946&mdash;), Native American languages
* Mitxelena Elissalt, Koldo (Spain, 1915&ndash;1987), Basque language
* Miura Tsutomu (Japan, 1911&ndash;1989), Japanese language
* Miyake, Marc (USA, 1971&mdash;), historical linguistics, Old Japanese, Tangut language
* Mönkh-Amgalan, Yümjiriin (Mongolia), pragmatics, semantics, syntax, Mongolian language, dialectology
* Mori Hiromichi (Japan, 1949&mdash;), Japanese language
* Motoori Norinaga (Japan, 1730&ndash;1801), Japanese language
* Motoori Haruniwa (Japan, 1763&ndash;1828), Japanese language
* Montague, Richard Merett (USA, 1930&ndash;1971), semantics, philosophy of language
* Moro, Andrea (Italy, 1962&mdash;), syntax, copula, expletive, antisymmetry, neurolinguistics
* Moser, Edward W. (USA), Seri language
* Mufwene, Salikoko (USA), creole languages, African American Vernacular English, language evolution
* Munro, Pamela (USA), Native American languages, lexicography
* Murayama Shichirō (Japan, 1908&mdash;1995), Japanese language
* Murray, James (UK, 1837&ndash;1915), lexicography, English language, etymology
* Myers-Scotton, Carol (USA, 1934&mdash;), language contact

## N
* Nábělková, Mira (Slovakia), lexical semantics, sociolinguistics
* Nádasdy Ádám (Hungary), phonology, morphophonology
* Napoli, Donna Jo (USA), 1948&mdash;), syntax, phonetics, phonology, Japanese language
* Neeleman, Ad (Netherlands/UK, 1964&mdash;), syntax, semantics, phonology, generative grammar
* Nelson, Andrew Nathaniel (USA, 1893&ndash;1975), Japanese language, lexicography
* Nevsky, Nikolai Aleksandrovich (Russia, 1892&ndash;1937), Tangut language
* Newmeyer, Frederick J. (USA, 1944&mdash;), syntax, origin of language
* Nichols, Johanna (USA), languages of the Caucasus, Chechen language, Ingush language, typology
* Nishida Tatsuo (Japan, 1928&mdash;), Tangut language
* Nolan, Francis (UK), phonetics
* Noreen, Adolf Gotthard (Sweden, 1854–1925), dialectology, historical linguistics, Germanic languages
* Nunberg, Geoffrey (USA), lexical semantics, English language

## O
* Odden, David A. (USA), phonology, African linguistics, Bantu languages
* Ohala, John (USA), phonetics, phonology
* Okrand, Marc (USA), Klingon language, Native American language, constructed languages
* Ōno Susumu (Japan, 1919–2008), Japanese language, Tamil language
* Orešnik, Janez (Slovenia, 1935&mdash;), comparative linguistics
* Orikuchi Shinobu (Japan, 1887&mdash;1953), Japanese language
* Orton, Harold (UK, 1898&ndash;1975), phonology, dialectology, English dialects
* Osthoff, Hermann (Germany, 1847&ndash;1909), Indo-European studies, historical linguistics
* Ōtsuki Fumihiko (Japan, 1847&mdash;1928), Japanese language
## P
*  (India, ca. 520&ndash;460 BC), Sanskrit, morphology, descriptive linguistics, generative linguistics
* Partee, Barbara Hall (USA, 1940&mdash;), semantics
* Paul, Hermann Otto Theodor (Germany, 1846&ndash;1921), lexicography, German language
* Pawley, Andrew Kenneth (Australia/New Zealand, 1941), Austronesian languages, Papuan languages, lexicography, phraseology
* Pedersen, Holger (Denmark, 1867&ndash;1953), Celtic languages, historical linguistics, Nostratic languages
* Pedersen, Johannes (Demark, 1883&ndash;1977), Hebrew language
* Pei, Mario Andrew (Italy/USA, 1901&ndash;1978), Italian language, Indo-European languages
* Pesetsky, David Michael (USA, 1957&mdash;), transformational grammar
* Phillipson, Robert (UK/Denmark, 1942&mdash;), language policy
* Pierrehumbert, Janet (USA, phonetics, phonology
* Pike, Kenneth Lee (USA, 1912&ndash;2000), English language, constructed languages, tagmemics
* Pilch, Herbert (Germany, 1927&mdash;), Old English, Celtic languages, phonetics
* Pimsleur, Paul (USA), language acquisition, French language, phonetics
* Pinker, Steven (Canada/USA, 1954&mdash;), language acquisition, syntax, semantics
* Piron, Claude (Switzerland, 1931&ndash;2008), Esperanto, psycholinguistics
* Pollard, Carl Jesse (USA, 1947&mdash;), syntax, semantics
* Pollock, Jean-Yves (France), syntax
* Poppe, Nicholas (Russia, 1897&ndash;1991), Mongolic languages
* Postal, Paul M. (USA, 1936&mdash;), syntax, semantics
* Primer, Sylvester (USA, 1842&ndash;1912), English language, dialectology, phonetics, Germanic languages
* Prince, Alan Sanford (USA, 1946&mdash;), optimality theory, phonology
* Pulgram, Ernst (Austria/USA, 1915&ndash;2005), Romance languages, Italic languages
* Pullum, Geoffrey K. (UK/USA, 1945&mdash;), syntax, English language
* Pustejovsky, James D. (USA), natural language processing, computational linguistics, semantics

## Q
* Quirk, Charles Randolph (UK/Germany, 1920&mdash;), English language

## R
* Rael, Juan Bautista (USA, 1900&ndash;1993), phonology, morphology, New Mexican Spanish
* Rask, Rasmus Christian (Denmark, 1787&ndash;1832), lexicography, comparative linguistics, Indo-European language
* Ratliff, Martha (USA), Hmong-Mien languages, historical linguistics
* Read, Allen Walker (USA, 1906&mdash;2002), etymology, lexicography, English language
* Reinhart, Tanya (Israel, 1943&ndash;2007), syntax
* Rickford, John Russell (USA), sociolinguistics, African American Vernacular English
* Rizzi, Luigi (Italy, 1952&mdash;), syntax, language acquisition
* Roberts, Ian G. (UK, 1957&mdash;), syntax
* Rock, Joseph Francis Charles (Austria/USA/PR China, 1884&ndash;1962), Naxi language, lexicography
* Rosenblat, Ángel (Poland/Venezuela, 1902&ndash;1984), Lexicography, Venezuelan Spanish, Philology
* Ross, John Robert (USA, 1938&mdash;), semantics, syntax
* Ross, Malcolm David (Australia, 1942&mdash;), Austronesian languages, Papuan languages, historical linguistics, language contact
* Rubach, Jerzy (Poland/USA, 1948&mdash;), phonology, Polish language
* Rubin, Philip E. (USA, 1949&mdash;), articulatory synthesis, phonology
* Ruhlen, Merritt (USA), typology, historical linguistics

## S
* Sacks, Harvey (USA, 1935&ndash;1975), conversation analysis
* Sadock, Jerrold (USA), syntax, morphology, pragmatics, Greenlandic language, Yiddish language
* Sag, Ivan (USA, 1949&mdash;), syntax, construction grammar
* Sagart, Laurent (France), Chinese linguistics and Austronesian languages
* Sakaguchi, Alicja (Poland/Germany, 1954&mdash;), interlinguistics, Esperanto
* Salo, David (USA, 1969&mdash;), constructed languages, Tocharian languages, Elvish languages
* Sampson, Geoffrey (UK, 1944&mdash;), philosophy of language
* Sánchez Carrión, José María (Spain, 1952&mdash;), Basque language, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics
* राहुल सांकृत्यायन (भारत, 1893&ndash;1963), तिब्बती भाषा, हिन्दी भाषा
* Sapir, Edward (Germany/USA, 1884&ndash;1939), Native American languages, constructed languages, semantics
* Saunders, Irene (USA/PR China), lexicography, Chinese language
* de Saussure, Ferdinand (Switzerland/France, 1857&ndash;1913), semantics, Indo-European studies, structural linguistics
* Sayce, Archibald Henry (UK, 1846&ndash;1933), Akkadian language
* Schegloff, Emanuel (USA), conversation analysis
* Schleicher, August (Germany, 1821&ndash;1868), Indo-European studies, language development, historical linguistics
* Schmidt, Johannes (Germany, 1843&ndash;1901), historical linguistics, Indo-European studies
* Schmidt, Wilhelm (Germany/Austria/Switzerland, 1868&ndash;1954), Mon-Khmer languages
* Schwarzschild, Roger (USA), semantics, pragmatics
* Searle, John Rogers (USA, 1932&mdash;), philosophy of language, pragmatics
* Sen, Sukumar (India, 1900&ndash;1992), Bengali language
* Sequoyah (USA, 1767&ndash;1843), Cherokee language
* Setälä, Eemil Nestor (Finland, 1864&ndash;1935), Finnish language, Uralic languages
* Sgall, Petr (Czech republic, 1926&mdash;), syntax
* Shackle, Christopher (UK, 1942&mdash;), Urdu language, Punjabi language
* Shepard-Kegl, Judy (USA), Nicaraguan Sign Language
* Shevoroshkin, Vitaly Victorovich (Russia/USA), Slavic languages, Nostratics
* Shinmura Izuru (Japan, 1876&mdash;1967), Japanese language
* Sibawayh (Iran, ca. 760&ndash;796), Arabic language
* Sidwell, Paul (Australia), Mon-Khmer languages, historical linguistics
* Sievers, Eduard (Germany, 1850&ndash;1932), Germanic languages, historical linguistics
* Sihler, Andrew Littleton (USA, 1941), comparative linguistics, Indo-European languages
* Sinclair, John McHardy (UK, 1933&ndash;2007), applied linguistics, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis
* Skeat, Walter W. (UK, 1835&ndash;1912), Old English, Middle English, etymology, philology
* Skinner, B.F. (USA, 1905&ndash;1992), Verbal behavior
* Skousen, Royal (United States, 1945&mdash;), language modeling
* Smith, Neilson Voyne (UK, 1939&mdash;), syntax, language acquisition
* Smolensky, Paul (USA, 1955&mdash;), phonology, optimality theory, syntax
* Starostin, Georgiy Sergeevich (Russia, 1976&ndash;), comparative linguistics, historical linguistics, Nostratics, Proto-World
* Starostin, Sergei Anatolyevich (Russia, 1953&ndash;2005), comparative linguistics, historical linguistics, Nostratics, Proto-World
* Steels, Luc (Belgium), computational linguistics, evolutionary linguistics
* Stetson, Raymond Herbert (USA, &mdash;1950), phonetics
* Stieber, Zdzisław (Poland, 1903&ndash;1980), Slavic languages, phonology
* Stokoe, William (USA, 1919&ndash;2000), American Sign Language, cherology.
* Suzuki Takao (Japan, 1926&mdash;), Japanese language, sociolinguistics
* Swadesh, Morris (USA, 1909&ndash;1967), typology, historical linguistics, Native American languages, lexicostatistics
* Sweet, Henry (UK, 1845&ndash;1912), Germanic languages, phonetics
* Sweetser, Eve (USA), cognitive linguistics, semantics, historical linguistics, Celtic languages

## T
* Talmy, Leonard (USA), cognitive linguistics, semantics, Yiddish language, Native American languages
* Tannen, Deborah Frances (USA, 1945&mdash;), discourse analysis
* Teeter, Karl van Duyn (USA, 1929&ndash;2007), Algic languages, endangered languages
* Thieberger, Nicholas (Australia), Indigenous Australian languages
* Thomas, Calvin (USA, 1854&ndash;1919), Germanic languages, German language
* Thomason, Sarah Grey (USA), language contact, historical linguistics, typology, Montana Salish
* Thompson, John Eric Sidney (UK, 1898&ndash;1975), Maya languages, Maya hieroglyphics
* Thompson, Sandra A. (USA), syntax, discourse analysis, Mandarin language
* Tokieda Motoki (Japan, 1900&ndash;1967), Japanese language
* Tolkien, John Ronal Reuel (UK, 1892&ndash;1973), Old English language, constructed languages, Sindarin, Quenya
* Toporišič, Jože (Slovenia, 1926—), Slovene language
* Trager, George Leonard (USA, 1906&ndash;1992), phonemics, paralanguage, semantics
* Trask, Robert Lawrence (USA, 1944&ndash;2004), Basque language, historical linguistics, origin of language
* Trubetzkoy, Nikolai Sergeyevich (Russia/Austria, 1890&ndash;1938), structural linguistics, morphology, phonology
* Trudgill, Peter (UK, 1943&mdash;), sociolinguistics, English language, dialectology
* Tuite, Kevin (USA, 1954&mdash;), Caucasian languages, Georgian language
* Turner, Mark (USA), cognitive linguistics

## U
* Ullendorff, Edward (UK, 1920&mdash;), Semitic languages
* Unger, James Marshall (USA, 1947&mdash;), Japanese language, historical linguistics, writing systems
* Upton, Clive (UK), English language, sociolinguistics, dialectology

## V
* Vajda, Edward (USA), Ket language, historical linguistics, Na-Dené languages, comparative linguistics
* van Valin, Robert D. (USA, 1952&mdash;), syntax, semantics, cognitive linguistics
* Valli, Clayton (USA, &mdash;2003), American Sign Language,
* Vasmer, Max (Russia/Germany, 1886&ndash;1962), etymology, historical linguistics, Russian language
* Vaux, Bert (USA, 1968&mdash;), phonology, morphology, Armenian language
* Veltman, Calvin (USA/Canada/France), sociolinguistics
* Vendler, Zeno (USA, 1921&ndash;2004), philosophy of language, event structure
* Ventris, Michael George Francis (UK, 1922&ndash;1956), Linear B, Archaic Greek
* Verner, Karl (Denmark, 1846&ndash;1896), phonology, comparative linguistics, historical linguistics, Indo-European phonology
* Voloshinov, Valentin Nikolaevich (Russia, 1895&ndash;1936), semantics
* Vovin, Alexander (Russia/USA), Japanese language, languages of Siberia, Korean language, Ainu language, Central Asian languages

## W
* Wackernagel, Jacob (Switzerland, 1853&ndash;1938), Indo-European studies, Sanskrit
* Wang Li (PR China, 1900&ndash;1986), Chinese language
* Watanabe Shōichi (Japan, 1930&mdash;), Japanese language
* Watkins, Calvert (USA), comparative linguistics, Indo-European languages
* Weeks, Raymond (USA, 1863&ndash;1954), phonetics, French language
* Weinreich, Max (Latvia/USA, 1893&ndash;1969), Yiddish language
* Weinreich, Uriel (Poland/USA, 1926&ndash;1967), sociolinguistics, dialectology, semantics, Yiddish language
* Wells, John Christopher (UK, 1939&mdash;), phonetics, Esperanto,
* Westermann, Diedrich Hermann (Germany, 1875&ndash;1956), languages of Africa, typology
* Westphal, Ernst Oswald Johannes (South Africa/UK, 1919&ndash;1990), Bantu languages, Khoisan languages
* Whalen, Douglas H. (USA), phonology, endangered languages
* Wheeler, Benjamin Ide (United States, 1954&ndash;1927), historical linguistics, comparative linguistics, Greek language
* White, Lydia (United Kingdom/Canada), second language acquisition
* Whitney, William Dwight (USA, 1827&ndash;1894), lexicography, Sanskrit, English language
* Whorf, Benjamin Lee (USA, 1897&ndash;1941), Native American languages, Maya script
* Wichmann, Søren (Denmark, 1964&mdash;), Mesoamerican languages, Mixe-Zoque languages, Mayan languages, Maya script
* Widdowson, Henry G. (UK), English language, discourse analysis
* Wierzbicka, Anna (Poland/Australia, 1938&mdash;), semantics, pragmatics
* Williams, Nicholas Jonathan Anselm (UK/Ireland, 1942&mdash;), Cornish language, Irish language, Manx language, phonology,
* Williams, Samuel Wells (USA/China, 1812&ndash;1884), Chinese language, lexicography
* Wilson, Robert Dick (USA, 1856&ndash;1930), comparative linguistics, Hebrew language, Syriac language
* Wittmann, Henri (France/Canada, 1937&mdash;), French language, creole languages, morphology, comparative linguistics
* Wolvengrey, Arok (Canada), Cree language, syntax, Native American languages, lexicography
* Wurm, Stephen Adolphe (Hungary/Australia, 1922&ndash;2001), Australian Aboriginal languages, Papuan languages

## X

## Y
* Yamada Yoshio (Japan, 1873&mdash;1958), Japanese language
* Yiakoumetti, Androula (Cyprus), Greek language, dialectology
* Yngve, Victor (USA, 1920&mdash;), computational linguistics, natural language processing
* Young, Robert W. (USA, 1912&ndash;2007), Navajo language, lexicography

## Z
* Zamenhof, Ludwik Łazarz (Poland, 1859-1917), Esperanto
* Zepeda, Ofelia (USA, 1952-), O'odham language
* Zhang, Niina Ning (PR China), formal syntax, morphology
* Zhou Youguang (PR China, 1903-), orthography, Romanization of Chinese
* Zuazo, Koldo (Spain, 1956-), Basque dialectology, sociolinguistics
* गिलाड ज़ुकरमैन (Zuckermann, Ghil'ad) (इज़राइल, इटली, यूनाइटेड किंगडम, ऑस्ट्रेलिया, 1971-), भाषा पुनर्जीवन, भाषा सम्पर्क, कोशविज्ञान, 
* Zwicky, Arnold (USA, 1940-), syntax, morphology

## टिप्पणियाँ
 

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