British Linguist
1. John C. Wells (1939)
British Linguist
John Christopher Wells is a British phonetician and Esperanto teacher. Wells is a professor emeritus at University College London where until his retirement in 2006 he held the departmental chair...
2. Ian Hancock (1942)
British Linguist
Ian Han* is a linguist Romani scholar and political advocate. He was born and raised in England and is one of the main contributors in the field of Romani...
3. Robert Phillipson (1942)
British Linguist
Robert Phillipson is Research Professor at Copenhagen Business School's Department of English. He is perhaps best known for writing Linguistic Imperialism and English-Only Europe?: Challenging Language Policy.
4. Norbert Schmitt (1955)
British Linguist
Norbert Schmitt is a Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. He is renowned for his work on second language vocabulary acquisition and second...
5. Gerald Gazdar (1950)
British Linguist
Gerald James Michael Gazdar is a linguist and computer scientist. He was educated at Heath Mount School Bradfield College the University of East Anglia and the University of Reading. He...
6. Nicholas Ostler (1952)
British Linguist
Nicholas Ostler is a British scholar and author. Ostler studied at Balliol College Oxford where he received degrees in Greek Latin philosophy and economics. He later studied under Noam Chomsky...
7. Anna Siewierska (1955)
British Linguist
Anna Siewierska was a Polish-born linguist who worked in Australia Poland the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. She was professor of linguistics at Lancaster University and a leading specialist in...
8. Randolph Quirk (1920)
British Linguist
Charles Randolph Quirk Baron Quirk CBE FBA is a British linguist and life peer.
9. Bernard Comrie (1947)
British Linguist
Bernard Comrie is a British-born linguist. Comrie is a specialist in linguistic typology and linguistic universals and on Caucasian languages. He is currently a professor at and director of the...
10. Yaron Matras (1963)
British Linguist
Yaron Matras is a linguist at the University of Manchester specializing in contact linguistics as well as Romani and other languages including Domari and Kurdish.
