Linguist
61Johannes Schmidt (linguist) — Johannes Schmidt (July 29, 1843 – July 4, 1901) was a German linguist. He developed the Wellentheorie ( wave theory ) of language development.Schmidt was born in Prenzlau, Province of Brandenburg. He studied philology (historical linguistics)… …
62James Evans (linguist) — This article is about the Canadian missionary. For other people by this name, see James Evans. James Evans (January 18, 1801 ndash; November 23, 1846) was a Canadian Methodist missionary and amateur linguist. He is best remembered for his… …
63John McCarthy (linguist) — John McCarthy (born 1953 in Medford, Massachusetts) is a linguist and professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a speciality in phonology and morphology. He was educated at Harvard University and… …
64Jack Chambers (linguist) — J. K. (Jack) Chambers (born 12 July 1938 in Grimsby, Ontario) is a Canadian linguist, and a well known expert on language variation and change, who pioneered research on Canadian English and coined the term Canadian raising. He has been a… …
65Ian Roberts (linguist) — Ian G. Roberts (born October 23, 1957 in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England) is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Downing College, Cambridge.He received his PhD from the University of Southern California in 1985 …
66Peter Matthews (linguist) — Peter Hugoe Matthews (born 1934) is a British linguist. He is a fellow of St John s College, Cambridge, and was formerly Professor and Head of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge (1980 2000).Matthews is perhaps best known …
67John Lyons (linguist) — Sir John Lyons (born 1932) is an English linguist, most famous for his work on semantics. John Lyons was educated at St Bede s College, Manchester, and at Christ s College, Cambridge, where he was also employed from 1961 to 1964. From 1964 to… …
68Joseph Wright (linguist) — Joseph Wright FBA (1855–1930) rose from humble origins to become Professor of Comparative Philology at Oxford University.Born in Thackley, near Bradford in Yorkshire, the seventh son of a navvy, he started work as a donkey boy (carriage driver)… …
69John Lynch (linguist) — John Lynch, born July 8, 1946, in Sydney, Australia, is a linguist specializing in Oceanic languages. He is a retired professor and the former Director of the Pacific Languages Unit at the University of the South Pacific in Port Vila, Vanuatu.… …
70Terry Crowley (linguist) — Terry Crowley (1953 2005) was a linguist specializing in Oceanic languages as well as Bislama, the English lexified Creole recognized as a national language in Vanuatu. From 1991 till his death he was a professor at the University of Waikato in… …
