A linguist is a person who studies Linguistics . Ambiguously, the word is sometimes also used to refer to a Polyglot , or a Grammarian , but these two uses of the word are distinct. The word ''linguistician'' is also used by some people to refer to one who studies linguistics, in order to avoid this ambiguity, although this word is rare, and generally disliked by linguists.
The following is a list of linguists. See Modern Linguists for those whose work follows the program of structural linguists.
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- Lyle Campbell
- Monica Cantero
- Rudolf Carnap ( 1891 - 1970 ) German
- Andrew Carnie ( 1969 -) Canadian , Syntax
- Robyn Carston
- John Chadwick ( 1902 - 1998 ) British ( Linear B )
- Wallace Chafe
- Paul Chilton
- Jean-François Champollion ( 1790 - 1832 ) French ( Egyptian Hieroglyphs )
- Noam Chomsky ( 1928 -) American , Syntax
- Sandra Chung American , Syntax
- Guglielmo Cinque ( 1948 -) Italian , Syntax
- Felice Coles
- Christopher Collins , American , Syntax , Kwa Languages
- Wes Collins (Hispanic Linguistics, Mam)
- Bernard Comrie
- Jean-Claude Coquet
- Annabel Cormack , British , Syntax
- Gerard Cornielje , Dutch , Syntax
- Elizabeth Cowper , Canadian , Syntax
- William Croft , American , Syntax , Cognitive Linguistics
- Megan Crowhurst ,
- David Crystal ( 1941 -) British
- Peter W. Culicover American
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- Harald Haarmann German
- Mary Haas
- Kenneth L. Hale ( 1934 - 2001 ) American
- Morris Halle ( 1923 -) American , Phonology , Morphology
- Michael Halliday ( 1925 -) British / Australian
- Michael Hammond ( 1957 -) American , Phonology , Computational Linguistics
- Heidi Harley ( 1969 -), American , Distributed Morphology , Syntax
- John Peabody Harrington
- James Harris (1709-1780)
- John Harris
- Roy Harris ( 1931 -) British
- Zellig Harris ( 1909 - 1992 ) American
- John Hawkins
- Sarah Hawkins
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa ( 1906 - 1992 ) American
- Bruce Hayes , American , Phonology
- Valerie Hazan
- Irene Heim American / German ( Semantics )
- Randall Hendrick , Syntax
- Luc Herman Belgian
- ( 1946 -) British / French ( Speech Prosody )
- Louis Hjelmslev ( 1899 - 1965 ) Danish
- Charles F. Hockett ( 1914 - 2000 ) American
- Harry Hoijer
- Harry Hollien
- Paul Hopper
- Norbert Hornstein , Syntax
- Jill House
- Bedřich Hrozný ( 1879 - 1952 ) Czech
- Mark Huckvale
- Wilhelm Von Humboldt ( 1787 - 1835 ) German
- Rodney Huddleston British / Australian
- Richard Hudson ( 1939 -) British , Syntax , Word Grammar
- Dell Hymes American
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- William Labov (born 1927 ) American (founder of Sociolinguistics )
- Peter Ladefoged (1925-2006), Phonetics
- Itziar Laka , Syntax
- George Lakoff American
- Robin Lakoff , Sociolinguistics
- Sydney Lamb (born 1929 ) American
- D. Terrence Langendoen , American , ( Syntax , Semantics , Computational Linguistics, Mathematical Linguistics)
- Richard Larson , Syntax
- Howard Lasnik , Syntax
- Karl Richard Lepsius ( 1810 – 1884 ) German
- Adrienne Lehrer , America (Lexical Semantics, Pragmatics )
- August Leskien ( 1840 – 1916 ) German
- Fran Levstik ( 1831 - 1881 ) Slovenia
- Charles N. Li ( Chinese )
- Yafei Li , Syntax
- Alvin Liberman
- Mark Liberman
- David Lightfoot
- Lin Hua ( Chinese )
- Ying Lin , Chinese , Phonetics , Computational Linguistics
- John Lipski
- Philip Locke
- Fred Lukoff ( 1920 – 2000 ) American ( Korean Language )
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- Monica Macaulay
- Marlys Macken
- Brian MacWhinney
- Diane Massam , Canadian , Syntax
- Miura Tsutomu ( 1911 - 1989 ) Japanese People
- Pádraic I. M. MacUidhir
- Ian Maddieson
- Anoop Mahajan Indian Hindi-Urdu Syntax
- Susan Major
- Sean Mann , American expert in Korean Dialect
- Alec Marantz
- Nikolay Yakovlevich Marr ( 1864 - 1934 ), Russian / Georgian
- André Martinet
- Joan Mascaro
- Peter Matthews (born 1934 ) British
- John J. McCarthy
- James McCloskey , Irish , Syntax
- James D. McCawley
- Martha McGinnis , Canadian , Syntax
- Cecile McKee , American , Language Acquisition
- John McWhorter , American , Creole Language s
- Carl Meinhof ( 1857 - 1944 ) German
- Franc Miklošič ( 1813 - 1891 ) Slovene
- Carl Mills ( 1942 - 2003 ) American
- Ken Miner
- Jason Merchant
- Marianne Mithun
- Richard Montague ( 1930 - 1971 ) American
- Motoori Norinaga ( 1730 - 1801 ) Japanese philologist of the Edo Period .
- Pamela Munro American
- Radhika Mamidi , Pragmatics and Computational Linguistics , India
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