LANGUAGE THEORISTS

1. LINGUISTS, GRAMMARIANS AND PHILOSOPHERS IN THE WORLD

(FROM PAST TO TODAY)

• Abi Ishaq b.735) Arab grammarian

• Aelfric (b.1000)

• Aitchison, Jean professor of Language and Communication

• Alcuin (735-804) scholar, ecclesiastic, poet and teacher

• Aristotle (BC. 384-322) Greek philosopher

• Austin, John Langshaw (1911-1960) philosopher of language

• Balli, Charles (1865-1947) French linguist

• Barthes, Roland (1915-1980) French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician

• Bartoli, Matteo (1873-1946) Italian linguist

• Baudrillard, Jean (1929-2007) French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer

• Bede (672-735) English writer and historian

• Benveniste, E`mile (1902-1976) French structuralist linguist

• Bernstein, Basil (1924-2000) British sociologist and linguist

• Bloomfield, Leonard (1887-1949) American linguist

• Boaz, Franz (1858-1942) anthropologist

• Bopp, Franz (1791-1867) German linguist

• Breal, Michel Jules Alfred (1832-1915) French philologist

• Bröndal, Viggo (1887-1942)

• Bühler, Carl (1879-1963) (in German)

• Carnap, Rudolf (1891-1970) philosopher

• Cassirer, Ernst (1874?|1945) German-Jewish philosopher

• Chomsky, Noam (b.1928-) American linguist, theorist, and political activist

• Church, Alonzo (1903?|1995) American mathematician and logician

• Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de (1715-1780) French philosopher

• Coseriu, Eugenio (b.1921-) linguist

• Courtenay, Jan Bandoin de (1845-1929) (under construction)

• Curcani (under construction)

• Dalgarno, George (1626-1687) Scottish intellectual interested in linguistic problems

• Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Italian poet

• Darmesteter, Arse`ne (1846-1888) philologist

• Dauzat, Albert (1877-1955)

• Davidson, Donald (1917-2003) American philosopher

• Dennet, Daniel Clement (b.1942-) American philosopher, noted atheist and advocate of the brights movement

• Derrida, Jacques (1930-2004) French philosopher, known as the founder of deconstruction

• Descartes, René (1596-1650) French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer

• Dik, Simon Cornelis (1940-1995) Dutch linguist, most famous for developing the theory of functional grammar

• Dionysios Thrax (BC. 170-90) Hellenistic grammarian

• Donatus, Aelius (AD. 4th century) Roman grammarian

• Dumézil, Georges (1898-1986) French comparative philologist

• Dummet, M.A.E

• Eco, Umberto (b.1932-) Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher and novelist

• Erasmus (1466-1536) Dutch humanist and theologian

• Fant, Carl Gunnar Michael (b.1919)

• al-Farabi (870-950) one of the greatest scientists and philosophers of Turkish and the Islamic world

• Faucoult, Michael (1926-1984) French philosopher and historian

• Fillmore, Charles J. (b.1929-) American linguist

• Firth, John Rupert (1890-1960) English linguist

• Fishman, Joshua A. (1926-) American sociolinguist

• Fodor, Jerry Alan (1935?|) American philosopher and cognitive scientist

• Fouche, Pierre (1891-1967) (under construction)

• Frege, Gottlob Friedrich Ludwig (1848-1925) German mathematician

• Gadamer, Hans-Georg (1900?|2002) German philosopher

• Ghazali (Ebu Hamid ibn Muhammed et-Tusi^ (1058-1111) Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic

• Gramsci, Antonio (1891-1937) Italian writer, politician and political theorist

• Gillieron, Jules (1854-1926)

• Godel, Robert (1902-1985) (under construction)

• Gödel, Kurt (1906-1978) Austrian American mathematician and philosopher

• Greenberg, Joseph Harold (1915-2001) American a prominent and controversial linguist and Africanist anthropologist

• Greimas, Algirdas-Julien (1917-1992) Lithuanian linguist

• Grice, Herbert Paul (1913-1988) British-educated philosopher of language

• Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863) German philologist, jurist and mythologist

• Guillaume, Gustave (1883-1960)

• Guiraud (under construction)

• Habermas, Jurgen (b.1929?|) German philosopher and sociologist

• Halliday, Michael Alexander Kirkwood (b.1925) English linguist

• Al-hamdani (c. 893-945) Arab geographer, poet, grammarian, historian, and astronomer

• Harris, Zellig Sabbetai (1909-1992) American linguist, mathematical syntactician, and methodologist of science

• Hayakawa, Samuel Ichi (1906?|1992) Canadian-born American academic and political figure

• Heidegger, Martin (1889-1976) German philosopher

• Herder, Johann Gottfried (1744-1803) German poet, critic, theologian, and philosopher

• Hjelmslev, Louis (1899-1965) Danish linguist

• Hockett, Charles Francis (1916-2000) American linguistic theorist

• Hrozny, Bedrich (1879-1952) Czech orientalist and linguist, known as deciphered the ancient Hittite language

• Humboldt, Wilhelm von (1767-1835) German government functionary, diplomat, philosopher and linguist

• Hymes, Del Hathaway (b. 1927) American sociolinguist, anthropologist and folklorist

• Ibn Jinni

  İbn Duraid

• Ibn Rushd (Averroes) (1126?|98) an Andalusian-Arab philosopher

• Ibn Sina (Avicenna) (980?|1037) Turkish physician, philosopher, and scientist

• Izutsu, Toshihiko (1914-1993) Japan linguist, Islamic scholars and researchers of Oriental philosophy, metaphysics

• Jackendoff, Ray (b.1945) American linguist and philosopher

• Jacobson, Roman Osipovich (1896-1982) Russian thinker

• Al-Jawaliqi (1073 ?| 1145) Arab grammarian

• Jespersen, Otto (1860-1943) Danish linguist

• Jones, Daniel (1881-1967) British phonetician

• Jurjani (d. 1078) Arabian grammarian

• Karsevski, S. (1884-1953) (under construction)

• Kiparsky, Paul (b.1941) Russian-born linguist and slavicist

• Korzybski, Alfred Habdank Skarbek (1879-1950) mathematician, scientist, and engineer for generations

• Kripke, Saul (b.1940) American philosopher and logician

• Kristeva, Julia (b.1941) Bulgarian-French philosopher

• Kucera, (Jingdrich) Henry (b. 1925) Czech linguist

• Kurylowicz, Jerzy (1895-1978) Polish linguist

• Labov, William (b.1923)

• Lacan, Jacques (1901-1981) French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor

• Lakoff, George (b.1941) professor of cognitive linguistics

• Lamb, Sydney M. (b.1929) American linguist

• Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716) German polymath

• Lenneberg, Eric Heinz (1921-1975) American linguist and neurologist

• Locke, John (1632-1704) English philosopher

• Lewis, David Kellogg (1941-2001) American analytic philosopher

• Levi-Strauss, Claude (b.1908-2010) French anthropologist

• Martinet, Andre (1908-1999) French linguist

• Mathesius, Vilem (1888-1945) Czech linguist

• Meillet, Antoine (1866-1936) French linguist

• Montague, Richard Merett (1930-1971) American mathematician and philosopher

• Moore, George Edward (1873-1958) English philosopher

• Mukarovski, Jan (1891-1975) Czech literary theoretic and aesthetician

• Müller, Max (1834-1898) German philologist and Orientalist

• Nyrop, Kristoffer (1858-1931) (under construction)

• Panini (BC. V. or IV. century) ancient Indian grammarian

• Passy, Paul (1859-1940)

• Paul, Hermann (1846-1921) German linguist and lexicographer

• Petofi, Janos Sandor (b.1931-) (under construction)

• Piaget, Jean (1896-1980) Swiss philosopher, natural scientist and developmental psychologist

• Pierce, Charles Sanders (1839-1914) American polymath, physicist, and philosopher

• Pike, Kenneth Lee (1912-2000) American linguist and anthropologist

• Pinker, Steven (b.1954-) Canadian-American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist

• Prince, Alan Sanford (b.1946) American linguist

• Platon (BC. 427-348) ancient Greek philosopher

• Pottier, Bernard (1924-) (under construction)

• Priscianus Caesariensis (500 A.D.) Latin grammarian

• Putnam, Hilary (1926-) American philosopher

• Quine, Willard Van Orman (1908-200) American philosopher and logician

• Ramus, Petrus (1515-1572) French humanist, logician, and educational reformer

• Rask, Rasmus Christian (1787-1832) Danish scholar and philologist

• Russell, Bertrand (1872-1970) British mathematician and philosopher

• Sampson, Geoffrey (d.1944) British linguist

• Sanctius (1523-1601) (under construction)

• Sapir, Edward, (1884-1939) American anthropologist-linguist

• Saussure, Ferdinand de (1857-1913) Swiss linguist

• Scaliger, Julius Caesar (1484-1558) Italian scholar and physician

• Schützenberger, Marcel-Paul (1920-1996) French mathamatician

• Searle, John b.1932) American philosopher of language and mind

• Schieicher, August (1821-1868)

• Shaumyan, Sebastian Konstantinovic (1916-) theoretician of linguistics

• Sibawayh (?-793) Arabic grammarian

• Skinner, Burrhus Frederick (1904?|1990 ) American psychologist, author, inventor, advocate for social reform and poet

• Slobin, Daniel Isaac (1939-)

• Smolensky, Paul (b.1955) American cognitive scientist

• Socrates (MÖ.436-338) ancient Greek philosopher

• Strawson, Sir Peter Frederick (1919-2006) English philosopher

• Sweet, Henry (1845-1912) English phonetician and comparative philologist

• Tarski, Alfred (1902-1983) logician and mathematician

• Tesnie`re, Lucien (1893-1954) French linguist

• Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel (1892?|1973) English philologist an writer

• Trask, Robert Lawrence (1944-2004) British linguist, an authority on Basque language and historical linguistics

• Trier, Jost (1894-1970) Germanic linguist

• Trnka, B. (under construction)

• Trombetti, Alfredo (1866-1929) Italian linguist

• Trubetskoy, Nikolay Sergeyevich (1890-1838) Russian linguist

• Ullmann, (Istvan) Stephen (1914-1976) Hungarian linguist

• Vachek, J. (under construction)

• Varro, Marcus Terentius ( 116 BC - 27 BC) Roman scholar and writer

• Vendryes, Joseph (1875-1960) French linguist

• Vygotskii, Lev Semënovich (1896–1934)

• Wartburg, Walther von (1888-1971) (under construction)

• Weingart, M. (under construction)

• Wernicke, Carl (1848-1905) German physician, anatomist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist

• Whitney, William Dwight (1827-1894) American linguist, philologist, and lexicographer

• Wilkins, Sir Charles (1749-1836) English typographer and Orientalist

• Whorf, Benjamin Lee (1897-1941) American linguist

• Wittgenstein, Ludgwig von (1889-1951) Austrian philosopher

• az-Zamachschaari, Abu l-Kasim Mahmud ibn Umar (1075-1144) (under construction)

2. LINGUISTS AND GRAMARIANS FOR TURKISH LANGUAGES

• Aalto, Pentti (b.1917-)

• Akalin, Mehmet

• Akar, Didar Turkish linguist (!)

• Aksan, Dogan (b.1929-)

• Aksan, Mustafa Turkish linguist (!)

• Aksan, Yeşim Turkish linguist (!)

• Akman, Varol

• Ali Kushcu (1403-1474)

• Altun, Mustafa (!)

• Arat, Reshit Rahmeti (1900-1964)

• Banguoglu, Tahsin

• Barnes, Jonathan (!)

• Baskakov, N. A. (1905-1996)

• Baskan, Özcan

• Bazin, Louis (1930-2011)

• Benzing, Johannes (doğ. 1913)

• Bergamali Kadri (16 century) Turkish grammarian (!)

• Bombaci, Alessio (1914-1979)

• Brockelmann, Carl (1868-1956)

• Castren, Matias A. (1813-1852)

• Charette, Monik (!)

• Clauson, Sir Gerard (1891-1974) English civil servant, businessman, and Orientalist, etymologist (!)

• Demircan, Ömer

• Deny, Jean (1979-1963)

• Dilacar, Agop (1895-1979) Turkish grammarian (!)

• Dmitriev, N. K. (1897-1954)

• Doerfer, Gerhard (b.1920-)

• Eckmann, Janos (1905-1971)

• Eren, Hasan

• Emre, Ahmet Cevat

• Ergin, Muharrem (1923-1995)

• Erol, Sibel (!)

• Filizok, Riza Turkish linguist (!)

• Gabain, A. von (1901-1993)

• Gencan, Tahir Nejat

• Gilson, Erika H.(!)

• Gombocz, Zoltan (1877-1935)

• Göksel, Aslı Turkish linguist (!)

• GrØnbech, Kaare (1901-1957)

• Halasi-Kun, Tibor (1914-1991)

• Hazai, György (b.1932-)

• Jarring, G. V. (1907-)

• Johanson, Lars

• Joki, A. J. (1913-1989)

• Kashgarli Mahmud (1008-1105)

• Katanov, N. F. (1862-1922)

• Kazim Beg, Mirza (1802-1870)

• Kerslake, Celia J. (!)

• Kelepir, Meltem Turkish linguist (!)

• Kilisli Muallim Rif'at Bilge (1874-1953)

• Kononov, A.N. (1906-1986) Russian grammarian (!)

• Korkmaz, Zeynep

• Kornfilt, Jaklin American linguist (the scientific study of Turkish language) (!)

• Kowalski, Tadeusz (1889-1948)

• Le Coq, A. von (1860-1930)

• Lewis, G.L.

• Ligeti, Lajos (1902-1987)

• Malov, S. E. (1880-1957)

• Melioranskiy, P. M. (1868-1906)

• Menges, Karl Heinrich (1908-1999)

• Meninski, François Mesgnien (1623-1698)

• Miyagawa, Shigeru (!)

• Müller, F. J. K. (1863-1930)

• Nakipoglu-Demiralp, Mine Turkish linguist (!)

• Nemeth, Gyula (1890-1976)

• Nielsen, K. H. R. (1875-1953)

• Oflazer, Kemal Turkish computer scientist (!)

• Öztürk Başaran, Balkız Turkish linguist (!)

• Özden, Ragip Hulusi

• Özsoy, Sumru Turkish linguist (!)

• Pavet de Courteille, A. (1821-1889)

• Polivanov, E. D. (1891-1938)

• Poppe, Nikolay (1897-1991)

• Pritsak, Omeljan (1919-2006) (!)

• Radloff, Wilhelm (1837-1918) German-born Russian founder of Turcology, or the scientific study of the Turkic peoples (!)

• Ramstedt, Gustaf John (1873-1950) Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat (!)

• Rasanen, A. M. O. (1893-1976)

• Redhouse, Sir J. W. (1811-1892)

• Rossi, Ettore (1894-1955)

• Samoylovic, A. N. (1880-1938)

• Stahlenberg, P. J. von ( 1676-1747)

• Shemseddin Sa^mi (1850-1904)

• Taylan, Eser Erguvanlı Turkish linguist (!)

• Tekin, Shinasi (1933-2004)

• Tekin, Talat (b.1927-)

• Thomsen, Vilhelm (1842-1927)

• Tietze, Andreas (1914-)

• Timurtash, F. Kadri

• Tryjarski, Edward (1923-)

• Tuna, Osman Nedim

• Uzun, Gülsün Leyla

• Uzun, Nadir Engin

• Üchok, Necip

• Vambery, Armin (1832-1913) Hungarian orientalist and traveler (!)

• Vardar, Berke

• Zajaczkowski, Ananiasz (1903-1970)