The following is a list of linguists, those who study linguistics.

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A

• Diana Archangeli American (phonology)
• Peter Ackema (Syntax)
• Werner Abraham Austria (Syntax)
• David Adger Scotland (Syntax)
• Joseph Aoun American (Syntax)

B

• Emmon Bach (1929-) American (Syntax, Semantics)
• Mark Baker American (Syntax, Semantics)
• Mark Baltin American (Syntax)
• Andy Barss American (Syntax)
• Thomas G. Bever American (Sentence Processing, Psycholinguistics)
• Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949) American
• Franz Boas (1858-1942) American
• Jonathan David Bobaljik Canadian (Syntax, Morphology)
• Franz Bopp (1791-1867) German

C

• Andrew Carnie (1969-) Canadian (Syntax)
• Lisa Cheng Chinese/American (Syntax)
• Carol Chomsky American (Language Acquisition)
• Noam Chomsky (1928-) American (Syntax)
• Sandra Chung American (Syntax)
• Guiglemo Cinque (Syntax)
• Christopher Collins (Syntax)

D

• Michel DeGraff (Syntax, Creolistics)
• Richard (Dick) Demers (Phonetics)

E

• Penny Eckert. American. (Sociolinguistics)
• Eugenio Coseriu. Romanian

F

• J. R. Firth (1890-1960) British

G

• (Herbert) Paul Grice (1913-1988) British
• Jakob Grimm (1785-1863) German
• Joseph Greenberg(1915- 2001)American

H

• Kenneth L. Hale (1934-2001) American
• Mark Robert Hale (1954-) American
• Morris Halle (1923-) American
• Michael Halliday (1925-) British/Australian
• Michael Hammond (1957-) American (Phonology, Computational Linguistics)
• Zellig Harris (1909-1992) American
• Heidi Harley (1969-) Canadian/American (Morphology, Syntax, Lexical Semantics)
• Irene Heim American/German (semantics)
• Louis Hjelmslev (1899-1965) Danish

I

• Sabine Iatridou (1958-) American/Greek
• Pavle Ivić (1924-1999) Serb

J

• Ray Jackendoff (1945-) American
• Roman Jakobson (1896-1982) Russian
• Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) Danish
• Kyle Johnson
• Daniel Jones (1881-1967) British]
• Jimmy Mello (1979) Brazil

K

• Paul Kiparsky (1941-) Finnish/American
• Đorđe Kostić (1909-1995) Serbian (speech recognition and machine translation in analogue technology, phonetics and phonology, etc.; surrealist)
• Angelika Kratzer American/German (semantics)
• Deny Kwary (1975-) Indonesian

L

• William Labov (1927-) American (founder of sociolinguistics)
• George Lakoff American
• Fred Lukoff (1920-2000) American (Korean language)

M

• Sean Mann (1932-1988) American (Korean language)
• Peter Matthews British
• John McWhorter

N

O

• Hermann Osthoff (1847-1909) German
• Karel Oštir (1888-1973) Slovene
• Marc Okrand - Klingon Language
• Oner Ozcelik Turkish

P

• Holger Pedersen (1867-1953) Danish
• David Pesetsky (1957-) American
• Kenneth L. Pike (1912-2000) American
• Predrag Piper Serbian (slavist)
• Christopher Potts

Q

R

• Norvin Richards American
• John Rickford American (Sociolinguistics)

S

• Edward Sapir (1884-1939) American
• Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) Swiss
• Irena Sawicka Polish
• Johannes Schmidt (1843-1901) German
• John Searle (1932-) American
• Donca Steriade American/Romanian
• Suzuki Takao Japanese
• Morris Swadesh American

T

• Deborah Tannen (1951-) American
• Julee Tate
• Eric Thompson (1898-1975) American
• Larry Trask (1944-2004) American
• Lisa Travis Canada

U

V

W

• John Wells (1939- ) British phonetician and Esperantist
• Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941) American
• Anna Wierzbicka (1938-) Polish (originator of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage Theory)

X

Y

Z

• Arnold M. Zwicky

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