1. James Paul Gee (1948)

American Linguist

Professor and linguist who became known for his work in the fields of literacy, bilingual education, and discourse analysis.

2. Michael Hammond (1957)

American Linguist

American author and academic who headed the linguistics department at the University of Arizona and published articles and books on such topics as psycholinguistics, phonology, and typology.

3. Paul Kay (1934)

American Linguist

Paul Kay is an emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of California Berkeley United States. He joined the University in 1966 as a member of the Department of Anthropology...

4. John Russell Bartlett (1805)

American Linguist

John Russell Bartlett was an American historian and linguist.

5. Barbara Partee (1940)

American Linguist

Barbara Hall Partee is a Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Linguistics and Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is one of the founders of contemporary formal semantics. She...

6. Allan R. Bomhard (1943)

American Linguist

Allan R. Bomhard is an American linguist. He was educated at Fairleigh Dickinson University Hunter College and the City University of New York and served in the U. S. Army...

7. Ofelia Zepeda (1954)

American Linguist

Ofelia Zepeda is a Tohono O'odham poet and intellectual.

8. Clayton Valli (1951)

American Linguist

Clayton Valli was a prominent deaf linguist and American Sign Language poet whose work helped further to legitimize ASL and introduce people to the richness of American Sign Language literature....

9. Daniel Everett (1951)

American Linguist

Daniel Leonard Everett is an American author and academic best known for his study of the Amazon Basin's Pirahã people and their language. As of July 1 2010 he serves...

10. John McWhorter (1965)

American Linguist

John Hamilton McWhorter V is an American linguist and political commentator. He is the author of a number of books on language and on race relations. His research specialties are...

11. William Croft (linguist) (1956)

American Linguist

Croft is a professor of linguistics at the University of New Mexico United States. From 1994 to 2005 he was successively research fellow lecturer reader and professor in Linguistics at...

12. Bert Vaux (1968)

American Linguist

Bert Vaux teaches phonology and morphology at the University of Cambridge. Previously he taught for nine years at Harvard and three years at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Vaux specializes in phonological...

13. John Gombojab Hangin (Unknow)

American Linguist

John Gombojab Hangin was a notable scholar of Mongolian studies. He authored several Mongolian dictionaries and textbooks and is credited by The New York Times with helping to establish recognition...

14. Heidi Harley (1969)

American Linguist

Heidi B. Harley is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. She is the author or coauthor of three books and has several papers published on formal syntactic...

15. Suzette Haden Elgin (1936)

American Linguist

Suzette Haden Elgin is an American science fiction author. She founded the Science Fiction Poetry Association and is considered an important figure in the field of science fiction constructed languages....

16. Allen Walker Read (1906)

American Linguist

Allen Walker Read was an American etymologist and lexicographer best known for his studies into the words okay and *. Read was born in Winnebago Minnesota earned a bachelor's degree...

17. Roberta Kevelson (1931)

American Linguist

Roberta Kevelson was a semiotician and an important authority on the pragmatism theories of Charles Sanders Peirce. She was a professor at Pennsylvania State University and The College of William...

18. Sebastian Shaumyan (1916)

American Linguist

Sebastian Konstantinovich Shaumyan was an Armenian American theoretician of linguistics and an outspoken adherent of structuralist analysis.

19. John Grinder (1940)

American Linguist

John Grinder Ph. D. is an American linguist author management consultant trainer and speaker. Grinder is credited with co-creating Neuro-linguistic programming with Richard Bandler. He is co-director of Quantum...

20. Bruce Hayes (linguist) (1955)

American Linguist

Bruce Hayes is Distinguished Professor of Linguistics and chair of the linguistics department at the University of California Los Angeles. He received his Ph. D. in 1980 from MIT where...

21. Michael Everson (1963)

American Linguist

Michael Everson is an American and Irish linguist script encoder typesetter font designer and publisher. He runs a publishing company called Evertype through which he has published over a hundred...