List of linguists

A

• Abbott, Barbara, pragmatics, semantics
• Abel, Carl, comparative lexicography
• Abdul Haq, Maulvi, Urdu language
• Abrams, Lise, psycholinguistics
• Abramson, Arthur S., phonetics
• Adams, Douglas Q., English language, comparative linguistics, Tocharian language
• Adler, George J., lexicography, German language, English language
• Aijmer, Karin, pragmatics, semantics
• Aikhenvald, Alexandra Yurievna, syntax, typology, Amazonian languages, Papuan languages, Hebrew language, Russian language
• Aitken, Adam Jack, lexicography
• Ajduković, Jovan, Slavic languages, sociolinguistics, contact linguistics, Russian language, Serbian language
• Albright, William Foxwell, Semitic languages
• Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi
• Al-Kisa'i
• Allan, Keith, semantics
• Alleyne, Mervyn Coleridge, creole languages
• Felix Ameka, pragmatics, semantics
• Amerias, Ancient Macedonian language, lexicography
• Anatoly Moskvin, academic and linguist, arrested in 2011 after the bodies of 26 mummified young women were discovered in his home.
• Anderson, Gregory D.S., Munda languages
• Anderson, Stephen, morphology and history of linguistics
• Aoun, Joseph, oriental languages, syntax
• Arisaka Hideyo, Japanese language
• Aristar, Anthony, linguistic infrastructure
• Armstrong, Lilias, phonetics
• Aronoff, Mark, morphology
• Ascoli, Graziadio Isaia, substrata, ladin language
• Austin, John Langshaw, philosophy of language, speech act
• Awobuluyi, Oladele, African languages
• Ayres-Bennett, Wendy, history of French and history of linguistic thought
• Azad, Humayun, Bengali language
• Al-Harbi, Abdul Aziz

  B

• Babiniotis, Georgios, Greek language
• Bach, Emmon, syntax, phonology, Haisla language
• Baker, Mark, Mohawk language, generative grammar
• Bally, Charles, French language, phraseology
• Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen, second language acquisition, tense and aspect, pragmatics
• Bar-Hillel, Yehoshua, machine translation, categorial grammar
• Barker, Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman, Urdu language, Indian languages
• Barlow, Robert Hayward, Nahuatl language
• Barnhart, David K., lexicography, English language
• Barnhart, Robert, lexicography, English language
• Barsky, Robert, discourse analysis
• Barthes, Roland
• Bartlett, John Russell,
• Baudouin de Courtenay, Jan Niecisław, phonology, Polish language
• Bauer, Robert Stuart, syntax, phonology, Sino-Tibetan languages
• Beckman, Mary E., phonetics, phonology
• Beckwith, Christopher, Asian languages, Tibetan language
• Beddor, Patrice, Phonetics, speech perception
• Beeken, Jeannine, lexicography, syntax, Dutch language
• Bello, Andrés, Spanish language, philology
• Bellugi, Ursula, sign language, neurolinguistics
• Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer, lexicography, Revival of the Hebrew language
• Bender, M. Lionel, African languages
• Benedict, Paul K., Sino-Tibetan languages, Tai–Kadai languages, historical linguistics
• Benveniste, Émile
• Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L., language documentation
• Berlitz, Charles Frambach, language acquisition
• Berlitz, Maximilian Delphinius, language acquisition
• Bhartrihari, Sanskrit
• Bickel, Balthasar, language typology, Kiranti languages
• Bickerton, Derek, creole languages, origin of language
• Bleek, Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel, languages of Africa
• Bloch, Bernard, Japanese language
• Bloch, Jules, languages of India
• Bloomfield, Leonard, structural linguistics
• Blust, Robert, Austronesian languages
• Boas, Franz, indigenous languages of the Americas
• Bœck, Égide de, Bangala language, Lingala
• Boersma, Paul, phonetics
• Bolinger, Dwight Le Merton, semantics, Spanish language
• Bomhard, Allan R., Nostratic languages, historical linguistics
• Bopp, Franz, Indo-European languages, comparative linguistics
• Boyd, Julian Charles, English language
• Bowerman, Melissa psycholinguistics, language acquisition
• Bowern, Claire historical linguistics
• Bresnan, Joan, syntax
• Bright, William, Native American languages, South Asian languages
• Brinton, Laurel J., grammaticalization, discourse markers
• Brody, Michael, syntax
• Browman, Catherine, phonetics, phonology
• Brugmann, Karl, Indo-European languages, Sanskrit, comparative linguistics
• Bucholtz, Mary , sociolinguistics
• Burgess, Anthony, English language, phonetics
• Burling, Robbins, languages of India
• Burridge, Kate, Germanic languages
• Butt, Miriam, syntax, South Asian languages
• Butzkamm, Wolfgang, applied linguistics, English language
• Byington, Cyrus translated English religious text into Choctaw language
• Badawi, El-Said

  C

• Campbell, Lyle, Native American languages
• Canger, Una, Mesoamerican languages
• Canonge, Elliott D., Comanche, Inuit
• Capell, Arthur, Australian languages, Austronesian languages, Papuan languages
• Cardona, George, Indo-European studies
• Carnap, Rudolf, syntax, constructed languages
• Carnie, Andrew, syntax
• Caro Baroja, Julio
• Caro, Miguel A., Spanish language, Colombian Spanish
• Carpenter, William Henry, Icelandic language
• Cart, Théophile, Esperanto
• Carter, Hazel, Bantu languages
• Chadwick, John, Linear B
• Chafik, Mohamed, writer and specialist in the Berber or Amazigh languages, dialects, and literature
• Chafe, Wallace, cognitive linguistics, semantics
• Chao Yuen Ren, Chinese language
• Chakrabarti, Byomkes, Santali language, Bengali language, comparative linguistics
• Champollion, Jean-François, Egyptian hieroglyphs
• Chambers, Jack , sociolinguistics
• Chatterji, Suniti Kumar, Bengali language
• Choijinzhab, Mongolian language
• Chomsky, Noam, syntax, universal grammar
• Choueiri, Lina, syntax, Lebanese Arabic
• Chyet, Michael L., Kurdish language
• Clark, Eve V., psycholinguistics, language acquisition
• Clyne, Michael George, Germanic languages
• Cohen, Paul S., phonology, etymology
• Cohen, Maurice Abraham, Urdu
• Collitz, Hermann, historical linguistics
• Comrie, Bernard, typology
• Cook, Guy , applied linguistics
• Cook, Vivian, applied linguistics
• Corder, Stephen Pit, applied linguistics
• Coşeriu, Eugen, Romance languages
• Cowgill, Warren, Indo-European studies
• Cowper, Elizabeth, syntax
• Creissels, Denis, syntax, phonology, Niger–Congo languages, Nakh-Daghestanian languages
• Croft, William, syntax, cognitive linguistics
• Crystal, David, English language, language death, applied linguistics
• Cuervo, Rufino Jose, Spanish language, Colombian Spanish
• Culicover, Peter W., syntax, language change
• Culioli, Antoine, general linguistics
• Cumakunova, Gülzura, Turkic languages
• Curme, George Oliver, Sr., German language, English language
• Curzan, Anne, English language, Descriptivism, Prescriptivism, lexicography

  D

• Dal, Vladimir, lexicography, Russian language
• Dahl, Östen, tense and aspect in linguistic typology
• Das, Khudiram, Bengali and Santali language
• Dani, Ahmad Hasan, South Asian languages
• Daniels, Peter T., writing systems
• Dayal, Veneeta, semantics, syntax
• Deacon, Terrence, language change, origin of language, cognitive linguistics
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar, lexicography, Persian language
• Delbrück, Berthold, Indo-European languages, syntax, comparative linguistics
• DeLancey, Scott, Tibeto-Burman languages, linguistic typology, historical linguistics
• Dempwolff, Otto, Austronesian languages
• Diderichsen, Paul, Danish
• Diffloth, Gérard, Mon–Khmer languages
• van Dijk, Teun Adrianus, pragmatics, discourse analysis, text linguistics
• Dixon, Robert Malcolm Ward, syntax, typology, Australian languages, Amazonian languages
• Dobrovský, Josef, Slavic languages, Czech language, lexicography
• Dobson, Veronica Perrule, Arrernte language
• Doke, Clement Martyn, Bantu languages, Lamba language
• Dolgopolsky, Aharon, Nostratic languages
• Dorian, Nancy, language death, Scottish Gaelic
• Dougherty, Ray C., transformational grammar, computational linguistics
• Dowty, David, semantics, syntax
• Dozier, Edward P., Native American languages, languages of the Philippines
• Dressler, Wolfgang U., phonology, morphology, text linguistics
• van Driem, George, Tibeto-Burman languages, symbiosism, Dzongkha language
• Dryer, Matthew, typology, syntax, language documentation
• Duden, Konrad, lexicography, German language
• Dunn, John Asher, Tsimshian language

  E

• Eckert, Penelope, sociolinguistics, language and gender
• Edmondson, Jerold A., Tai–Kadai languages, languages of Southeast Asia
• Edwards, Jonathan, Jr., North American languages, historical linguistics, Mohegan language
• Ehret, Christopher, languages of Africa, historical linguistics
• Elbert, Samuel Hoyt, Polynesian languages of Hawaii and Rennell and Bellona, Puluwatese language
• Elgin, Suzette Haden, constructed languages, transformational grammar
• Ellis, Rod, second language acquisition
• Elman, Jeffrey L., language processing, neurolinguistics
• Emeneau, Murray Barnson, Dravidian languages, linguist areas
• Erdal, Marcel, Turkic languages
• Esenç, Tevfik, Ubykh language
• Evans, Nicholas, Indigenous Australian languages, Papuan languages, typology
• Evans, Vyvyan, cognitive linguistics, digital communication, and emoji
• Even-Shoshan, Avraham, Hebrew language, lexicography
• Everett, Daniel Leonard, languages of Brazil, Pirahã language
• Everson, Michael, writing systems, historical linguistics

  F

• Fairuzabadi
• Fierz-David, Linda, philology
• Fillmore, Charles J., syntax, lexical semantics, cognitive linguistics, lexicography
• Firth, John Rupert, phonetics, phonology, prosody
• Fischer-Jørgensen, Eli, phonetics, phonology, Danish language
• Fishman, Joshua, sociology of language
• Fiske, Willard, Northern European languages, Icelandic language
• Fodor, Janet Dean, psycholinguistics, semantics, syntax
• Fodor, Jerry Alan, psycholinguistics, language of thought
• Foley, William A., Papuan languages, Austronesian languages
• Ford, Jeremiah Denis Mathias, Spanish language
• Fowler, Carol A., phonetics, phonology
• François, Alexandre, Austronesian languages, historical linguistics, language contact
• Freiman, Aleksandr Arnoldovich, Iranian languages
• French, David Heath, Native American languages
• Friedrich, Johannes, Hittite language
• Fromkin, Victoria, theoretical linguistics, constructed languages
• Fujitani Nariakira, Japanese language

  G

• Galloway, Brent D., Amerindian languages, Halkomelem language
• Gamkrelidze, Thomas V., Indo-European studies, Georgian language
• Gans, Eric, origin of language
• Garnier, Romain, Indo-European linguistics
• Gazdar, Gerald, computational linguistics, syntax, semantics
• Gebauer, Jan, Czech language
• Geeraerts, Dirk, semantics, lexicography
• van Geert, Paul, second language development
• Giles, Howard, sociolinguistics
• Givón, Talmy, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, typology, functionalism
• Giegerich, Heinz, English language, phonology
• Gleason, Jean Berko, psycholinguistics, language acquisition
• Goatly, Andrew, English language, Chinese language
• Goddard, Cliff, semantics, pragmatics
• Goddard, R.H. Ives, III, Algonquian languages, historical linguistics
• Gode, Alexander, constructed languages, Germanic languages
• Goldberg, Adele, syntax, psycholinguistics
• Goldsmith, John Anton, phonology, computational linguistics
• Goldstein, Louis M., phonetics, phonology
• Gong Hwang cherng, Sino-Tibetan languages, Old Chinese, Tangut language
• Gordon, Cyrus Herzl, ancient languages, cuneiform script
• Gray, Louis Herbert, Indo-Iranian languages, phonology
• Green, Lisa, syntax of African American English
• Greenberg, Joseph Harold, typology, language universals, languages of Africa
• Grice, Paul, pragmatics
• Grierson, George Abraham, languages of India
• Gries, Stefan Th., corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, cognitive linguistics, construction grammar
• Grimm, Jakob Ludwig Carl, historical linguistics, comparative linguistics, German language
• Grinder, John Thomas, neurolinguistics
• Grosz, Barbara J., natural language processing, computational modeling of discourse
• Groupe µ, rhetorics, semiotics
• Grube, Wilhelm, Tungusic languages, Nivkh language, Jurchen language
• Gumperz, John Joseph, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, linguistic anthropology
• Gutiérrez Eskildsen, Rosario María, Spanish language, dialectology
• Guy, Gregory, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, phonetics, phonology
• Guthrie, Malcolm, Bantu languages

  H

• Haarmann, Harald, evolutionary linguistics, language contact
• Haas, Mary Rosamund, Native American languages, Thai language, historical linguistics
• Haase, Martin, Romance languages
• Hagberg, Carl August, Scandinavian languages
• Hajič, Jan, computational linguistics
• Hajičová, Eva , corpus linguistics
• Hale, Kenneth Locke, syntax, phonology
• Hall, Kira, sociocultural linguistics
• Hall, Robert A., Jr. , Romance languages, Pidgins and Creoles
• Halle, Morris, phonology, morphology
• Halliday, Michael Alexander Kirkwood, systemic functional grammar, ecolinguistics, applied linguistics
• Hammarström, Harald, computational linguistics, historical linguistics, linguistic typology
• Hammond, Michael, phonology, computational linguistics, syntax
• Hamp, Eric P., Indo-European languages, Native American languages
• Hanzeli, Victor, Romance languages
• Haq, Mehr Abdul, Saraiki language
• Harder, Peter, English language, functional linguistics
• Harkavy, Alexander, Yiddish language, lexicography
• Harley, Heidi B., distributed morphology, syntax
• Harrington, John Peabody, Native American languages, phonetics
• Harris, Roy, semiology, integrationism
• Harris, Zellig Sabbetai, structural linguistics, discourse analysis, Semitic languages
• Harrison, K. David, phonology, endangered languages, language extinction
• Hartmann, Reinhard Rudolf Karl, lexicography, contrastive linguistics
• Hasan, Ruqaiya, systemic functional grammar, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics
• Hashimoto Mantarō, Japanese language
• Hashimoto Shinkichi, Old Japanese language, Japanese language
• Haspelmath, Martin, typology, language change, language contact, Lezgian language
• Haugen, Einar Ingvald, sociolinguistics, Old Norse
• Hawkins, Bruce Wayne, cognitive linguistics
• Hawkins, John A., psycholinguistics, historical linguistics
• Hayakawa, Samuel Ichiye, semantics
• Hayes, Bruce, phonology
• Hays, David Glenn, computational linguistics, machine translation, dependency grammar, corpus linguistics, natural language processing, cognitive science
• Heath, Jeffrey, historical linguistics, morphology, linguistic anthropology
• Heim, Irene Roswitha, semantics
• Heine, Bernd, languages of Africa, sociolinguistics, language contact
• Hepburn, James Curtis, Japanese language, lexicography
• Herbert, Robert Knox, phonology, languages of Africa, sociolinguistics
• Hetzron, Robert, Afro-Asiatic languages
• Hewitt, John Napoleon Brinton, Iroquoian languages
• Hjelmslev, Louis, comparative linguistics, semantics
• Hobbs, Jerry R., computational linguistics, discourse analysis, syntax, semantics
• Hock, Hans Henrich, historical linguistics, comparative linguistics, Sanskrit
• Michael Hoey, lexical priming, textual interaction, corpus linguistics
• Hockett, Charles Francis, phonology, morphology
• Hoff, Erika, Psycholinguistics
• Hoffmann, John-Baptist, Mundari language
• Hogg, Richard M., phonology, historical linguistics
• Hoijer, Harry, Athabaskan languages, Tonkawa language
• Hopper, Paul , historical linguistics, emergent grammar
• Hornstein, Norbert, syntax
• Hrozný, Bedřich, Hittite language, ancient languages
• Huddleston, Rodney D., English language
• Hudson, Richard, syntax, word grammar, linguistics in education
• von Humboldt, Wilhelm, Basque language
• Hunston, Susan, corpus linguistics, lexical semantics
• Hupel, August Wilhelm, Estonian language, lexicography
• Hurford, James R., phonetics, semantics, grammar, computational linguistics, evolutionary linguistics
• Husain Khan, Masud, Urdu language, phonetics, stylistics, linguistic description
• Hyman, Larry M., phonology, languages of Africa
• Hymes, Dell Hathaway, sociolinguistics, Kathlamet language

  I

• Ibn Sidah
• Ibn Manzur
• Illich-Svitych, Vladislav Markovich, comparative linguistics, Nostratic languages
• Ivanov, Aleksei Ivanovich, Chinese language, Tangut language
• Ivanov, Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich, Indo-European studies
• Ivić, Pavle, South Slavic languages, phonology, Serbocroatian language

  J

• Jackendoff, Ray, syntax, lexical semantics
• Jackson, Abraham Valentine Williams, Indo-Iranian languages, Avestan language
• Jackson, Kenneth Hurlstone, Brythonic languages, Gaelic languages
• Jacobsen, Lis, Danish and Nordic languages
• Jacques, Guillaume, Old Chinese, Rgyalrongic languages, Tangut language
• Jagić, Vatroslav, Croatian language, Slavic languages
• Jakobson, Roman Osipovich, structuralism, phonology
• Jarring, Gunnar, Turkic languages
• Jasanoff, Jay, Indo-European linguistics
• Jaszczolt, Katarzyna, semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language
• Jaunius, Kazimieras, Lithuanian language, comparative linguistics
• Jendraschek, Gerd, Basque language, Turkish language, Iatmul language
• Jespersen, Otto, English language, phonetics, constructed languages
• Johnson, David E., syntax
• Jones, Daniel, phonetics
• Jones, Sir William, Indo-European studies, Sanskrit, comparative linguistics
• Joshi, Aravind Krishana, computational linguistics
• Junast, Mongolian language, Monguor language, Eastern Yugur language, Phags-pa script
• Jurafsky, Daniel, computational linguistics

  K

• Kaplan, Ronald M., computational linguistics
• Karadžić, Vuk Stefanović, Serbian language, lexicography
• Kari, James, Native American languages
• Kasravi, Ahmad, ancient languages, Iranian languages
• Katz, Jerrold J., semantics, generative grammar
• Kaufman, Terrence, historical linguistics, contact linguistics, Mesoamerican languages
• Kay, Martin, computational linguistics
• Kay, Paul, construction grammar
• Kayne, Richard, syntax, transformational grammar
• Kazama Kiyozō, Japanese language
• Kazama Shinjirō, Japanese language
• Keating, Patricia, phonetics
• Kellogg, Samuel H., Hindi language
• Kenyon, John Samuel, English language, lexicography, phonology
• Keyser, Samuel Jay, phonology, English language
• Kiesling, Scott Fabius, sociolinguistics
• Kindaichi Haruhiko, Japanese language
• Kindaichi Kyōsuke, Ainu language
• Kinkade, M. Dale, Salishan languages
• Kiparsky, Paul, phonology, morphology
• Kirby, Simon, computational linguistics, evolutionary linguistics
• Klima, Edward, sign language
• Klinkenberg, Jean-Marie, rhetorics, semiotics, stylistics
• Kloekhorst, Alwin, Anatolian languages
• Knechtges, David R., East Asian languages, Chinese language
• Knorozov, Yuri Valentinovich, Maya hieroglyphics, writing systems
• Kober, Alice, Linear B
• Komárek, Miroslav, Czech language, morphology, phonology
• Kordić, Snježana, Serbo-Croatian language, syntax, sociolinguistics
• Kornai András, mathematical linguistics, phonology, morphology, Hungarian language, syntax
• Kornfilt, Jaklin, theoretical linguistics, syntax, morphology, Turkic languages, Germanic languages
• Korsakov, Andrey Konstantinovich, Germanic languages, English language, morphology, syntax
• Korzybski, Alfred Habdank Skarbek, general semantics
• Koster, Jan, generative grammar
• Krahe, Hans, Indo-European languages, Illyrian language
• Krashen, Stephen, second language acquisition
• Kratzer, Angelika, semantics
• Krauss, Michael E., Native American languages
• Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju, Dravidian languages
• Kroeber, Alfred Louis, Native American languages
• Kučera, Henry, computational linguistics
• Kuno Susumu, Dravidian languages, Japanese language, syntax
• Kurath, Hans, English language, lexicography, dialectology
• Kuroda Shigeyuki, Japanese language
• Kuryłowicz, Jerzy, Indo-European languages, syntax, morphology
• Kychanov, Evgenij Ivanovich, Tangut language

  L

• Labov, William, sociolinguistics, phonology, English language
• Lado, Robert, applied linguistics, contrastive analysis
• Ladefoged, Peter Nielsen, phonetics, endangered languages
• Laird, Charlton, lexicography, English language
• Lakoff, George P., cognitive linguistics, transformational grammar, generative semantics, syntax
• Lakoff, Robin Tolmach, sociolinguistics
• Lamb, Sydney MacDonald, stratificational grammar, Native American languages, historical linguistics, computational linguistics
• Lambdin, Thomas Oden, Semitic languages, Egyptian language
• Lane, Harlan, speech, Deaf culture, sign language
• Langacker, Ronald W., cognitive linguistics
• Langdon, Margaret, Native American languages
• LaPolla, Randy J., morpho-syntax, Chinese, Qiang, Rawang
• Lasersohn, Peter, semantics
• Lasnik, Howard, syntax
• Laycock, Donald, languages of Papua New Guinea
• Lee, Joan H., text messaging
• Leech, Geoffrey, applied linguistics, English language
• Lees, Robert, machine translation
• Lehiste, Ilse, phonetics, Estonian language, Serbo-Croatian, phonology
• Lehmann, Winfred P., historical linguistics, Proto-Indo-European language
• Leonard, Robert A., Forensic linguistics
• Lepsius, Karl Richard, Egyptian language, Nubian languages, phonology
• Leslau, Wolf, Semitic languages, Languages of Ethiopia
• Leskien, August, comparative linguistics, Baltic languages, Slavic languages
• Levin, Beth, semantics
• Levinson, Stephen C., pragmatics
• Levstik, Fran, Slovene language
• Li Fanwen, Tangut language
• Li Fanggui, Mattole language, Tai languages, Old Chinese, Tibetan language
• Li, Paul Jen-kuei, Formosan languages, Austronesian languages, historical linguistics, lexicography
• Liberman, Alvin Meyer, speech perception, phonology
• Liberman, Anatoly, etymology, Germanic languages
• Liberman, Mark, phonetics, prosody
• Lieber, Rochelle, morphology, syntax, lexical semantics
• Lieberman, Philip, phonetics, language evolution
• Lillo-Martin, Diane, signed languages
• Lisker, Leigh, phonetics, Dravidian languages
• Local, John, phonetics, phonology, conversation analysis
• Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn, Native American languages, Mayan languages
• Lowman, Guy Sumner, Jr., phonetics
• Ludlow, Peter, syntax, semantics
• Lukoff, Fred, Korean language, phonology
• Lunde, Ken, East Asian languages
• Lynch, John, Austronesian languages, historical linguistics

  M

• MacWhinney, Brian, language acquisition, second language acquisition, corpus linguistics
• Maddieson, Ian, phonetics
• Malkiel, Yakov, etymology, philology
• Manaster Ramer, Alexis, phonology, syntax, poetics, etymology
• Marantz, Alec, distributed morphology
• March, Francis Andrew, comparative linguistics, lexicography, Old English language, English language
• Margolis, Max Leopold, Semitic languages
• Marr, Nikolay Yakovlevich, historical linguistics, comparative linguistics, origin of language
• Martin, James, genre
• Martin, Samuel Elmo, Korean language, Japanese language
• Martinet, André, structuralism, historical linguistics, constructed languages
• Martinet, Jeanne, semiotics, constructed languages
• Massam, Diane, syntax, Austronesian languages
• Mathesius, Vilém, phonology, syntax, English language, Czech language
• Matisoff, James A., Tibeto-Burman languages, phonology
• Matthews, Peter Hugoe, morphology, syntax
• Matthews, Stephen, typology, syntax, semantics, Cantonese language
• Mattingly, Ignatius G., phonetics, speech synthesis, speech perception
• Matveyev, Aleksandr, onomastics, etymology
• McArthur, Tom, English language, lexicography
• McCarthy, John J., phonology, morphology, optimality theory
• McCawley, James D., syntax, semantics, phonology
• McCulloch, Gretchen, internet linguistics
• McCune, George McAfee, Korean language
• McNamara, Barbara, Chinese language
• McWhorter, John Hamilton, creole languages, Saramaccan language
• Meillet, Antoine, Comparative Linguistics, Armenian language, Philology
• Meinhof, Carl Friedrich Michael, languages of Africa
• Melchert, H. Craig, Anatolian languages
• Michaelis, Laura A., syntax, English language
• Michaud, Alexis, Phonetics, Tonology, Naish languages, Vietnamese
• Miklosich, Franz, Slavic languages
• Miller, Wick R., Keresan languages, Uto-Aztecan languages
• Miller, Roy Andrew, Tibetan language, Japanese language
• Mithun, Marianne, Native American languages
• Mitxelena Elissalt, Koldo, Basque language
• Miura Tsutomu, Japanese language
• Miyake, Marc, historical linguistics, Old Japanese, Tangut language
• Mönkh-Amgalan, Yümjiriin, pragmatics, semantics, syntax, Mongolian language, dialectology
• Mori Hiromichi, Japanese language
• Motoori Norinaga, Japanese language
• Motoori Haruniwa, Japanese language
• Montague, Richard Merett, semantics, philosophy of language
• Moro, Andrea, syntax, copula, expletive, antisymmetry, neurolinguistics
• Moser, Edward W., Seri language
• Mufwene, Salikoko, creole languages, African-American English, language evolution
• Munro, Pamela, Native American languages, lexicography
• Murayama Shichirō, Japanese language
• Murray, James, lexicography, English language, etymology
• Muti’I, Ibrahim, Uyghur language
• Myers-Scotton, Carol, language contact

  N

• Nábělková, Mira, lexical semantics, sociolinguistics
• Nádasdy Ádám, phonology, morphophonology
• Napoli, Donna Jo, syntax, phonetics, phonology, Japanese language
• Neeleman, Ad, syntax, semantics, phonology, generative grammar
• Nelson, Andrew Nathaniel, Japanese language, lexicography
• Nevsky, Nikolai Aleksandrovich, Tangut language
• Newmeyer, Frederick J., syntax, origin of language
• Nichols, Johanna, languages of the Caucasus, Chechen language, Ingush language, typology
• Niftawayh
• Nishida Tatsuo, Tangut language
• Nolan, Francis, phonetics
• Noreen, Adolf Gotthard, dialectology, historical linguistics, Germanic languages
• Nunberg, Geoffrey, lexical semantics, English language

  O

• Odden, David A., phonology, African linguistics, Bantu languages
• Ohala, John, phonetics, phonology
• Okrand, Marc, Klingon language, Mutsun language
• Ōno Susumu, Japanese language, Tamil language
• Orešnik, Janez, comparative linguistics
• Orikuchi Shinobu, Japanese language
• Orton, Harold, phonology, dialectology, English dialects
• Osthoff, Hermann, Indo-European studies, historical linguistics
• Ōtsuki Fumihiko, Japanese language

  P

• Pāṇini, Sanskrit, morphology, descriptive linguistics, generative linguistics
• Frank R. Palmer, semantics, English language, Ethiopian languages
• Partee, Barbara Hall, semantics
• Paul, Hermann Otto Theodor, lexicography, German language
• Pawley, Andrew Kenneth, Austronesian languages, Papuan languages, lexicography, phraseology
• Peacock, Dmitri Rudolf, Kartvelian languages
• Pedersen, Holger, Celtic languages, historical linguistics, Nostratic languages
• Pedersen, Johannes, Hebrew language
• Pei, Mario Andrew, Italian language, Indo-European languages
• Pesetsky, David Michael, transformational grammar
• Keith Malcolm Petyt, sociolinguistics
• Phillipson, Robert, language policy
• Pierrehumbert, Janet, phonetics, phonology
• Pinault, Georges-Jean, Tokharian, Indo-European linguistics
• Pike, Kenneth Lee, English language, constructed languages, tagmemics
• Pilch, Herbert, Old English, Celtic languages, phonetics
• Pimsleur, Paul, language acquisition, French language, phonetics
• Pinker, Steven, language acquisition, syntax, semantics
• Piron, Claude, Esperanto, psycholinguistics
• Polinsky, Maria, syntax, Austronesian languages
• Pollard, Carl Jesse , syntax, semantics
• Pollock, Jean-Yves, syntax
• Poplack, Shana, sociolinguistics
• Poppe, Nicholas, Mongolic languages
• Postal, Paul M., syntax, semantics
• Primer, Sylvester, English language, dialectology, phonetics, Germanic languages
• Prince, Alan Sanford, optimality theory, phonology
• Prince, Ellen, pragmatics
• Pulgram, Ernst, Romance languages, Italic languages
• Pullum, Geoffrey K., syntax, English language
• Pustejovsky, James D., natural language processing, computational linguistics, semantics

  Q

• Quirk, Charles Randolph, English language

  R

• Radford, Andrew, syntax, generative grammar, child language acquisition
• Rael, Juan Bautista, phonology, morphology, New Mexican Spanish
• Rask, Rasmus Christian, lexicography, comparative linguistics, Indo-European language
• Ratliff, Martha, Hmong–Mien languages, historical linguistics
• Rauch, Irmengard, Germanic languages, semiotics
• Read, Allen Walker, etymology, lexicography, English language
• Reinhart, Tanya, syntax
• Rice, Keren, phonology, morphology, Athapaskan languages
• Rickford, John Russell, sociolinguistics, African-American English
• Rizzi, Luigi, syntax, language acquisition
• Roberts, Ian G., syntax
• Rock, Joseph Francis Charles, Naxi language, lexicography
• Rosenblat, Ángel, lexicography, Venezuelan Spanish, Philology
• Ross, John Robert, semantics, syntax
• Ross, Malcolm David, Austronesian languages, Papuan languages, historical linguistics, language contact
• Rubach, Jerzy, phonology, Polish language
• Rubin, Philip E., articulatory synthesis, phonology
• Ruhlen, Merritt, typology, historical linguistics

  S

• Sacks, Harvey, conversation analysis
• Sadock, Jerrold, syntax, morphology, pragmatics, Greenlandic language, Yiddish language
• Sag, Ivan, syntax, construction grammar
• Sagart, Laurent, Chinese linguistics and Austronesian languages
• Sakaguchi, Alicja, interlinguistics, Esperanto
• Salo, David, constructed languages, Tocharian languages, Elvish languages
• Sampson, Geoffrey, philosophy of language
• Sánchez Carrión, José María, Basque language, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics
• Sankoff, Gillian, sociolinguistics
• Sankrityayan, Rahul, Tibetan language, Hindi language
• Sapir, Edward, Native American languages, constructed languages, semantics
• Sarkar, Prabhat Ranjan,, Transliteration, Science of Letters
• Saunders, Irene, lexicography, Chinese language
• de Saussure, Ferdinand, semantics, Indo-European studies, structural linguistics
• Sayce, Archibald Henry, Akkadian language
• Schegloff, Emanuel, conversation analysis
• Schleicher, August, Indo-European studies, language development, historical linguistics
• Schmidt, Johannes, historical linguistics, Indo-European studies
• Schmidt, Richard, second-language acquisition
• Schmidt, Wilhelm, Mon–Khmer languages
• Searle, John Rogers, philosophy of language, pragmatics
• Selinker, Larry, second-language acquisition
• Sen, Sukumar, Bengali language
• Sequoyah, Cherokee language
• Setälä, Eemil Nestor, Finnish language, Uralic languages
• Sgall, Petr, syntax
• Shackle, Christopher , Urdu language, Saraiki language
• Shepard-Kegl, Judy, Nicaraguan Sign Language
• Shevoroshkin, Vitaly Victorovich, Slavic languages, Nostratics
• Shinmura Izuru, Japanese language
• Sibawayh, Arabic language
• Sievers, Eduard, Germanic languages, historical linguistics
• Siewierska, Anna, language typology
• Sihler, Andrew Littleton, comparative linguistics, Indo-European languages
• Sinclair, John McHardy, applied linguistics, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis
• Skeat, Walter W., Old English, Middle English, etymology, philology
• Skinner, B.F., verbal behavior
• Skousen, Royal, language modeling
• Smith, Neilson Voyne, syntax, language acquisition
• Smolensky, Paul, phonology, optimality theory, syntax
• Stachowski, Marek, historical linguistics, Turkic languages
• Starostin, Georgiy Sergeevich, comparative linguistics, historical linguistics, Nostratics, Proto-World
• Starostin, Sergei Anatolyevich, comparative linguistics, historical linguistics, Nostratics, Proto-World
• Stati, Sorin, pragmatics, syntax
• Steedman, Mark, theoretical linguistics, categorial grammar, syntax, computational linguistics
• Steels, Luc, computational linguistics, evolutionary linguistics
• Stetson, Raymond Herbert, phonetics
• Stieber, Zdzisław, Slavic languages, phonology
• Stokoe, William, American Sign Language, cherology
• Stollznow, Karen, lexical semantics, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics
• Suzuki Takao, Japanese language, sociolinguistics
• Swadesh, Morris, typology, historical linguistics, Native American languages, lexicostatistics
• de Swart, Henriette, semantics
• Sweet, Henry, Germanic languages, phonetics
• Sweetser, Eve, cognitive linguistics, semantics, historical linguistics, Celtic languages

  T

• Talmy, Leonard, cognitive linguistics, semantics, Yiddish language, Native American languages
• Tannen, Deborah Frances, discourse analysis
• Tarone, Elaine, second-language acquisition
• Tarpent, Marie-Lucie, Tsimshianic languages
• Tha Myat, Mon language, Burmese language, Pyu language, Nagari
• Teeter, Karl van Duyn, Algic languages, endangered languages
• Thieberger, Nicholas, Indigenous Australian languages
• Thomas, Calvin, Germanic languages, German language
• Thomason, Sarah Grey, language contact, historical linguistics, typology, Montana Salish
• Thompson, John Eric Sidney, Maya languages, Maya hieroglyphics
• Thompson, Sandra A., syntax, discourse analysis, Mandarin language
• Tokieda Motoki, Japanese language
• Tolkien, John Ronal Reuel, Old English language, constructed languages, Sindarin, Quenya
• Toporišič, Jože, Slovene language
• Trager, George Leonard, phonemics, paralanguage, semantics
• Trask, Robert Lawrence, Basque language, historical linguistics, origin of language
• Traugott, Elizabeth C., grammaticalization
• Trubetzkoy, Nikolai Sergeyevich, structural linguistics, morphology, phonology
• Trudgill, Peter, sociolinguistics, English language, dialectology
• Tuite, Kevin, Caucasian languages, Georgian language
• Turner, Mark, cognitive linguistics
• Tucker, Archibald, African languages

  U

• Ullendorff, Edward, Semitic languages
• Unger, James Marshall, Japanese language, historical linguistics, writing systems
• Upton, Clive, English language, sociolinguistics, dialectology

  V

• Vajda, Edward, Ket language, historical linguistics, Na-Dené languages, comparative linguistics
• van Valin, Robert D., syntax, semantics, cognitive linguistics
• Valli, Clayton, American Sign Language,
• Vasmer, Max, etymology, historical linguistics, Russian language
• Vaux, Bert, phonology, morphology, Armenian language
• Veltman, Calvin, sociolinguistics
• Vendler, Zeno, philosophy of language, event structure
• Ventris, Michael George Francis, Linear B, Archaic Greek
• Verner, Karl, phonology, comparative linguistics, historical linguistics
• Vincent, Nigel, morphology, syntax, historical linguistics
• Voloshinov, Valentin Nikolaevich, semantics
• Vovin, Alexander, Japanese language, Siberian languages, Korean language, Ainu language, Central Asian languages

  W

• Wackernagel, Jacob, Indo-European studies, Sanskrit
• Wang Li, Chinese language
• Watanabe Shōichi, Japanese language
• Watkins, Calvert, comparative linguistics, Indo-European languages
• Weeks, Raymond, phonetics, French language
• Weinreich, Max, Yiddish language
• Weinreich, Uriel, sociolinguistics, dialectology, semantics, Yiddish language
• Wells, John Christopher, phonetics, Esperanto
• Westermann, Diedrich Hermann, languages of Africa, typology
• Westphal, Ernst Oswald Johannes, Bantu languages, Khoisan languages
• Whalen, Douglas H., phonology, endangered languages
• Wheeler, Benjamin Ide, historical linguistics, comparative linguistics, Greek language
• White, Lydia, second language acquisition
• Whitney, William Dwight, lexicography, Sanskrit, English language
• Wilks, Yorick, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, natural language processing, semantics
• Whorf, Benjamin Lee, Native American languages, Maya script, linguistic relativity
• Wichmann, Søren, Mesoamerican languages, Mixe–Zoque languages, Mayan languages, Maya script
• Widdowson, Henry G., English language, discourse analysis
• Wierzbicka, Anna, semantics, pragmatics
• Williams, Nicholas Jonathan Anselm, Cornish language, Irish language, Manx language, phonology
• Williams, Samuel Wells, Chinese language, lexicography
• Wilson, Robert Dick, comparative linguistics, Hebrew language, Syriac language
• Wittmann, Henri, French language, creole languages, morphology, comparative linguistics
• Wodak, Ruth, discourse analysis
• Wolvengrey, Arok, Cree language, syntax, Native American languages, lexicography
• Worcester, Samuel, Presbyterian missionary, linguist, co-founder of Cherokee Phoenix with Elias Boudinot
• Wright, Alfred,, Choctaw language
• Wurm, Stephen Adolphe, Australian Aboriginal languages, Papuan languages

  Y

• Yeda Pessoa de Castro, African languages
• Yamada Yoshio, Japanese language
• Yiakoumetti, Androula, Greek language, dialectology
• Yngve, Victor, computational linguistics, natural language processing
• Young, Robert W., Navajo language, lexicography

  Z

• Zamenhof, Ludwik Łazarz, Esperanto
• Zepeda, Ofelia, O'odham language
• Zhang, Niina Ning, formal syntax, morphology
• Zhou Youguang, orthography, Romanization of Chinese
• Zuazo, Koldo, Basque dialectology, sociolinguistics
• Zuckermann, Ghil'ad, contact linguistics, lexicology, revival linguistics
• Zwicky, Arnold, syntax, morphology